Part II: The Last Exit Before Tall

Rocks, stones – kamni are the city: its face, its body, its soul, its entire fundamental nature, and the photographs give us an evidence of that. The city is not simply the living space or habitat territory in which the daily events like rain, rendezvous, love and breakups occur. The city is an autonomous character of the book: sometimes a friend, sometimes an opponent; sometimes even an enemy. Perhaps the city is the only reality that exists. Everything else is inside it: limited, determined by it – in power of this super-human being.

        Poems presented in the first part of the book “The Diaries of Noah” dwell in the space of the conflict between the lyrical hero and the city. Ironically, resistance to the City’s supreme power and claims to conquering it go along with the total dissolving of the lyrical hero into the city. From the first to the last poem this rivalry evolves through various gradations of antagonism. Through the fear and hostility (which has both political and mythical roots) the hero comes to reconciling, to the faith and the Book oath in the last poem (with the clear reference to Psalm 137) in his pledge “If I forget you”.