Roller-skating Notes - Nina Zivancevic

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ROLLER-SKATING NOTES Nina Zivancevic [Nina Zivancevic is the winner of the 2021 CENTRE NATIONAL DU LIVRE [CNL] grant for creative writing (poetry domain ). ] Teleported across the Iron Curtain, Zivancevic sounds the hidden alienation of a language on the brink, of mantras of the unsayable compulsively disgorged in lieu of a politic of linguistic refuge. Poetry is not, as Adorno claimed, impossible after Auschwitz, any more than it is impossible after the Soviet Union or the present drowning of the planet in commodified junk, but the contrary: such catastrophes make language possible in its critical poetic aspect. - Louis Armand In this book Nina Zivancevic is a stand-up poet in the true tradition of the great stand-up comedians, like Lenny Bruce, for instance, like Groucho Marx. But she's more than that! When Nina Zivancevic's says in her poem, Active Artists Reforming Action, No, I'm not an Anarchist/My grandfather did it for me..., then you're really in the presence of someone whose every poem is an assault on the senses, a bullet to your ears. - Gerard Malanga This transnational writer reflects on her current life in Paris, France and the situation with migrants, her past in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and its civil war, as well as New York, US and its problems with gentrification. But she also speaks regarding other current or past events, like the civil war in Syria, and Afghanistan. We delight in her reflections on ancient Greece...