Leaving / Traveling as a Topic of the Young Macedonian Poetry (WILL by Mane Manushev and House for migrant birds by Gjoko Zdraveski) Cover Image

ЗАМИНУВАЊЕТО/ПАТУВАЊЕТО КАКО ТЕМА ВО ПОМЛАДАТА МАКЕДОНСКА ПОЕЗИЈА (ЌЕ од Мане Манушев и Куќичка за птици преселници од Ѓоко Здравески)
Leaving / Traveling as a Topic of the Young Macedonian Poetry (WILL by Mane Manushev and House for migrant birds by Gjoko Zdraveski)

Author(s): Živko Grozdanoski
Subject(s): Poetry, Book-Review
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: migration; home; identity; young Macedonian poetry; revolt; spirituality; Mane Manushev; Gjoko Zdraveski

Summary/Abstract: The act of moving abroad of young people from Republic of Macedonia is a phenomenon that gradually acquires frightening dimensions, and thereby becomes hot topic in the poetics of a fraction of the young Macedonian artists. This text has the intension to attract reader's attention towards young poets Mane Manushev and Gjoko Zdraveski and their books of poetry (WILL and House for migrant birds, respectively). The most impressive assertions in Manushev's WILL reflect criticism (at times sharp, at times resigned) towards the hypocrisies in nearby society, modern society and especially in the city, the revolt against the materialistic order of things, and the leaving as a way towards a refuge. However, the reader of Manushev's poetry can also sense the author's rebellion against the act of leaving, and his urge to "revisit" the childhood. Gjoko Zdraveski's house for migrant birds is divided in two sections, and the poems "flow" towards the final act of self-identification. The central point of interest is traveling, often involuntary, imposed by the order of things in life and society. Zdraveski's discourse is plain and essential, though, the poems are very often veiled with distinct spirituality that opens a metaphysical dimension.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 99-107
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Macedonian
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