ЗАГАТЛИВИОТ БИСЕР ШТО ЈА ЗАТВОРА РАНАТА: КОН ПОЕТСКАТА КНИГА ДНИ, ГОДИНИ ОД ДИМИТАР БАШЕВСКИ
THE ENIGMATIC PEARL THAT CLOSES THE WOUND: ON THE POETRY BOOK DAYS, YEARS BY DIMITAR BASHEVSKI

Summary/Abstract: For his book Days, years Dimitar Bashevski has received the highest 2023 Macedonian national poetry award Miladinov Brothers, given by the International Festival Struga Poetry Evenings. In spite of the common critical perception of Dimitar Bashevski as a primarily fiction writer, his seven books of poetry published in the past 35 years demonstrate a coherent poetic model which seems illustrative of the principles of imagism as charted by Ezra Pound. This paper analyses Bashevski’s latest title Days, years as probably the most exemplary of the two contrasts – nature vs. the city and yesterday vs. today – that define his poetry. He creates a vision of plants, insects, birds and animals which together with people connect and celebrate life in the microcosm called “the village”. The latter is opposed to the ironic image of the city of people alienated by technological devices. Bashevski’s images often come through a child’s perspective, through memory, but are refracted through the wisdom that comes later, in old age. And so, poetry, like a precious pearl, appears as a sublime experience that heals the wounds of the life journey.

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