Vlado Bulić

On the other hand, his poetry is articulated in such a way that it has a dramaturgical effect. He goes about this as though he is writing about the most normal, most ordinary things, things which anyone with the rudiments of literacy could pick up from the daily papers. Bulić is fundamentally a poet inspired by the avant-garde, and hence inclined to subjects that are marginal in nature. Nevertheless, he is aware that what he is dealing with is the fringes of society, in contrast to other Croatian poets who try to present subjects like an everyday love affair, the shared experience of the great mass of young people in Croatia.

In any case, a whole series of linguistic and poetic strata come into play in his poetry, successfully and almost imperceptibly. The real focus of his readers\' interest is their direct identification with the lyrical protagonist as presented here, something which is not susceptible to calculation. Quite simply, a like-minded author and his public have managed to find one another, with no deal being cut in advance.

Vlado Bulić is one of the very few young Croatian poets to have described his understanding of poetry and his own literary intentions in an essay, written especially to describe how his collection 100 Pieces came into being. Translated by Kim Burton


Poems
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Also on this site
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Essay by Vlado Bulić


Bibliography
Poetry
100 komada, 100 Pieces, Studentski centar Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, 2003.

Fiction
Putovanje u srce hrvatskog sna, Journey Into the Heart of Croatian Dream, novel, forthcoming.
Pušiona Denisa Lalića, Denis Lalić a Real Drag, short stories, forthcoming.

Links
In Croatian
Index.hr
Web-column entitled ‘Pušiona’, written under the pen name Denis Lalić.

Igorbanjac.net
Selection from the book 100 peaces

Zarez
Website of the bi-weekly cultural magazine Zarez from Zagreb, with the short story entitled ‘Pizdolizac’.