Kulturogena autoreferencijalnost
Cultural self-referentiality

the relationship between poetics and existence in the poetry of Amir Brka

Summary/Abstract: In the poetry of Amir Brka is represented the special cultural self-referentiality, it is about the relation of the poetry against the existence in the coordinates of the mentioned social-historic field. In so many numbers of his songs we can recognize this phenomenon, meaning that here is poetry in the significant way determined by the existence in Bosnia considering to the selfreferentiality which is reflected by the way that Brka thinks about in his poetry. This poet is preoccupied with history, with human misfortunes and in the need of understanding the human first, him and his position in the time that he lives in, he sings before and after the war. The poet Brka shows how the poetry is referenced on the character and the circumstances of the country he lives in and what is his opinion that he reflected through his poetry. A reality that was destroyed by the war and afterwards with the war traumas, by one his word, are the hard historic experiences, that are obsessive theme of this poet. Within his poetry, historical fate is never explicity expressed, no images of war of terror, but through his own life trauma, or through images of individual human destiny is told in fate. His poetry bears witness to the historical fracture, human, but also poetry speaks of poetry inside that unfortunate moment, namely: bringing synthesis of historical relativity, moral and metaphysical absolute.

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