Promotion of the poetry collection "Ko na brdu" (Who on the Hill), by Bojan Vučićević, will be held today at the National Library "Radosav Ljumović" in Podgorica, at 19 p.m.
The editor at the Public Institution "Zahumlje" from Nikšić will speak about the book. Andjela Pekovic who is the author of the afterword, poet and frontman of the band "Vrpca" Braco Subotic who also signs the foreword, journalist Milovan Markovic and the author.
The collection, according to the description, consists of two thematic circles, one of which consists of love poems and the other of freedom poems.
"They are bound by a single thread, clearly visible to a pure heart. It connects all the traces on the endless path to the Sun that the author walks... The awakening of love for freedom is finally part of our reality. We witness this on the streets, squares and roads across the country," the description on the author's official website reads.
Subotić states in the preface that the author is "knowledgeably reliant on the legacy" which he selflessly provides with this collection.
"After the initial introduction and insight into himself, Bojan continues to disarm what is locked within us, what no system can forbid us - to be human. What was promised to us, a long time ago. There is no need to ask unnecessary questions, but only to acknowledge everything mentioned so far. He is the engine driver of this train that travels to a safe destination. Without a doubt. With him, the sun always shines, and love is constantly searching," Subotić wrote.
In the review, Prof. Dr. Rade Vučićević notes that the author "sings with ease"...
"His creative thought simply creates an obedient verse, which rhythmically, metrically, but also expressively builds an obedient poetic image, which is the ultimate experiential product of this kind of artistic expression," he states.
The title of the poetry collection “Ko na brdu”, Peković noted, clearly calls for a new understanding of Njegošev’s skillfully established thought about the burden of the one who sees more than the one under the hill. At the same time, she adds, the poet’s intention to communicate personal truths about the world and man only to a ready, self-aware and overly responsible individual who is on the same sunny side as the poet himself is lost. The author, Peković emphasizes, insists on a turn towards the interior of his being.
"In the end, it seems that with this collection, Vučićević has managed to respond to the request that Jack London once made when he spoke about poetry, noting that the lofty task is to transform a feeling into speech that will in turn transform the same feeling into the one who reads it, and the impression that this author has certainly built on the reader, ultimately rests on a free, bold and sunny thought," said Peković.
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