In Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, Shira Wolfe's cinematic poetry reads like scenes from a movie, describing a period of her life spent in Belgrade and traversing the Balkans — from Sarajevo to the Bay of Kotor, from Stara Planina to Mount Avala. Most of all, it is an ode to the Belgrade of her past and the relationships she formed there, constellating around that city and continuously reappearing elsewhere in encounters fuelled by synchronicity. In her world, cities become smells; statues can be read; and the boundaries between art and life, between self and other, are always blurred.
Shira Wolfe
Jugoslovenska Kinoteka is available from Menard Press.
“Tracing Darwish” is a poem from the collection that comes after Shira Wolfe devoted time to study the works of the late Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish.
Shira Wolfe
is a Dutch-American poet, writer and translator based in Amsterdam, whose work is situated within a multilingual space. After completing her masters in International Performance Research with a visual poetry project inspired by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, she lived... Read more
Shira Wolfe
is a Dutch-American poet, writer and translator based in Amsterdam, whose work is situated within a multilingual space. After completing her masters in International Performance Research with a visual poetry project inspired by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, she lived in Belgrade on and off between 2016 and 2021. She is the author of the self-published poetry collections and artist books Wider Than the Sky (2021), Wider Wings (2022) and Fallen Angel (2023), and contributed to the anthology Vreselijk verlangen. Een verzameling smachtende Mammoetjes (Dreadful Desire, HetMoet Publishing, 2023). As a translator and copyeditor for the intersectional feminist publication series Archival Textures, she is committed to the ongoing collaborative, intercultural and intergenerational conversation that explores the role of translation and language in anti-oppressive movements. Her debut collection of poetry is Jugoslovenska Kinoteka. Read less
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