ПОЕЗИЈАТА КАКО ЧУДО, СОН И МИТ: ВО ПОЕТСКИОТ СВЕТ НА ВЛАДА УРОШЕВИЌ
POETRY AS A MIRACLE, DREAM AND MYTH: IN THE POETIC WORLD OF VLADA UROSHEVIKJ

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents an attempt to provide a summary of the key points of the poetic work of the Macedonian poet Vlada Uroshevikj (1934), through the analysis of poems from 12 books of poetry that he has published during the course of the last 6 decades. The poetic world of Vlada Uroshevikj impresses with its encyclopedic versatility and distinctiveness, the hurricane force of his ability to surprise, as well as his (hyper)sensitivity for the miraculous and the unusual in both life and art. Vlada Uroshevikj is a poet who manages, in every stage of his career, with every new book, and with every new poem to both maintain and deepen his ability to stay fresh and his sense for the Unseen, Unexplored, Undiscovered. Every verse of his is a new quest for an intellectual, spiritual and linguistic adventure: for Uroshevikj, poetry represents a journey towards immensely exciting revelations that are described through the power of language. One of the privileged aspects of his poetry is reserved for the creative transformation of ancient and modern myths: those seemingly well-known stories always shine with a new and surprising light in the poetry of Vlada Uroshevikj. The poetry of Uroshevikj represents one of the most telling arguments which prove that Macedonian culture truly belongs in the Mediterranean cultural area. In his poetry, the Mediterranean is present as a miraculous chronotope and a miracle in itself. His poetry is infused with the Mediterranean sun, landscape, atmosphere, scents, colours and shades. The poetic sensibility of Vlada Uroshevikj is quite sensitive to the changes in both nature and the urban landscape. Starting with his first collection of poetry, he draws poetic images in an almost painterly manner to depict the subtle changes and the interplay between the light and the shadows. Dreams as a theme are one of the key creative volcanic outlets which burst with the lyrical inventiveness of this poet, while the chronotope of the dream is most often linked to the one of the city. Dreamers are one of the main heroes in a series of poetic cycles in the opus of Vlada Uroshevikj. The privilege to be a dreamer is one of the greatest gifts that a human being can have. Because, as the poem “The Dreamers’ Secret” says: The sleepers are sleeping, only the dreamers are dreaming. In the poetry of Uroshevikj, the dream as the “generator of Miracles” plays a myriad of different roles. It can be the primordial outflow of human creativity, “contemplation in images”, intuitive perception; finally, it can be a form of never-ending surprise. It is common knowledge that Uroshevikj is a poet who has always been in a subtle dialogue with art, especially painting. He is the author of the first cycle of ekphrastic poetry as a constituent part of the contemporary Macedonian poetry. Specifically, that is the sonnet cycle “Canvases”, included in the second book of poetry Unseeing (1962), a poetic cycle which constitutes a deliberate and refined poetic dialogue with the mysteries of fine art. Another unique phenomenon in Macedonian poetry is linked to Uroshevikj that is the fact that a significant portion of his poetry is written in rhymed quatrains. Moreover, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to state that his sonnets are among the greatest achievements of musical semiosis in the entirety of contemporary Macedonian poetry.

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