Dejan Stojanovic

Circling: 1978-1987 by Dejan Stojanovic Amazon: Circling: 1978-1987 by Dejan Stojanovic (Poetry in Translation) Loneliness DarknessYou were not there The darkness was longing for youYou, however, for the darknessAnd you started shining The Open Door Nobody entersNobody sees the passageNobody recognizes the sign The world is always openWaiting to be discovered Suns and the Night Can nights see the sunsBeing born and levitatingDo they take notice of a travelling day Will the day tell its...Read Full Story

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1976Saul Bellow and Dejan Stojanovic, Chicago, 1992Reflections with Saul BellowThis interview was conducted at the University of Chicago in the spring of 1992 and published in January 1993, in the Serbian magazine Views. Mr. Bellow expressed a desire to receive a copy of the interview, but one was never sent to him, because for technical reasons—translation, publication etc. the process took much more time than expected and the author of the interview felt uneasy...Read Full Story

The Sun Watches Itself (Sunce sebe gleda), Dejan Stojanovic The second collection of Dejan Stojanovic’s verse, “The Sun is Watching Itself,” is covered by a metaphysical and philosophical veil. Eleven segments are connected by these two abstract approaches and by such key images as a circle, suggesting infinity, and silence, reflecting space and eternity. The circle serves as a powerful symbol and a device of the perpetual in this poetry: “the end without endlessness is only a new beginning...Read Full Story

The Sun Watches the Sun by Dejan Stojanovic, a photo by Books18 on Flickr. Via Flickr: The second collection of Dejan Stojanovic’s verse, “The Sun is Watching Itself,” is covered by a metaphysical and philosophical veil. Eleven segments are connected by these two abstract approaches and by such key images as a circle, suggesting infinity, and silence, reflecting space and eternity. The circle serves as a powerful symbol and a device of the perpetual in this poetry: “the end without...Read Full Story

Dejan StojanovicDejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches Itself, 1999The second collection of Dejan Stojanovic's verse, "The Sun is Watching Itself," is covered by a metaphysical and philosophical veil. Eleven segments are connected by these two abstract approaches and by such key images as a circle, suggesting infinity, and silence, reflecting space and eternity. The circle serves as a powerful symbol and a device of the perpetual in this poetry: "the end without endlessness is only a new beginning...Read Full Story