BLESSED THE WATER THAT GIVES BIRTH TO STONES A LOOK AT STOJAN VUČIĆEVIĆ’S POETRY FROM A KARST PERSPECTIVE Cover Image

BLAŽENA JE VODA ŠTO RAĐA KAMENJE – POGLED NA POEZIJU STOJANA VUČIĆEVIĆA IZ KRŠKE PERSPEKTIVE
BLESSED THE WATER THAT GIVES BIRTH TO STONES A LOOK AT STOJAN VUČIĆEVIĆ’S POETRY FROM A KARST PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Ivo Lučić
Subject(s): Poetry, Physical Geopgraphy, Regional Geography, Croatian Literature
Published by: Centar za krš i speleologiju
Keywords: Stojan Vučićević; karst; karstology; poetry; underground;

Summary/Abstract: How to entitle karstology interested in treating karst in one’s poetry? Poetic karstology? It sounds inappropriate, though it should be true. This is one of such attempts, on the occasion of thirtieth anniversary of the death of Stojan Vučićević, a poet of refined senses and exceptional poetic intuition, born in Popovo Polje. He comes into the world into a family that inherited the experience of the pastoral-agricultural culture shaped within this extraordinary karst phenomenon. The idea was to move karstology from conventional geoscience to an interdisciplinary and more holistically understood science. Basically, the poetic images and concepts of Stojan Vučićević are compared to the images and notions of karst created by karstology. This analysis, which is only one of the many possible ways, proved justified and offered various answers. The poetry of Stojan Vučićević is interwoven throughout and transversely with themes and figures of karst, in which karst specificities are an important means of poetic creation. This is most evident in the Siga (Flowstone) collection, which features particularly illustrative poems by “Siga”, “Ponornica” (Sinking river) and “Pećina” (Cave).

  • Issue Year: XXXVIII/2018
  • Issue No: 51
  • Page Range: 77-100
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Croatian
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