СЕЋАМ СЕ, ДАКЛЕ ПОСТОЈИМ
I REMEMBER, THEREFORE I EXIST

Summary/Abstract: The collection Pisma iz prastare budućnosti is dominated by the “poetics of memory”, which the poet apostrophizes as a measure of his existential and essential confirmation of existence, that is, his stay in this world. I remember, therefore I exist – could be the poetic credo of this book. The timeline – which is like an arrow shot into the past (October 1976), does not stop there, however. Memory is wider than temporal data and more comprehensive than the contents that are included in that range. The poet treats love not only as a subjective feeling, but as a property or immanence of the world itself, so its interpretation can also be characterized as ontological. For the poet, love is not (only) emotion, cognition, sensuality and spirit – it is an entity whose essence is indestructible and eternal. Even when it is (only) about the memory of love, its power is equally constructive, both on the individual level of constituting meaning (the lyrical subject), and on the general level of the search for meaning (of the world). Although sung in an elevated tone, which somewhat resembles ancient dramas, with effective but not affected reminiscences of the images of the past, Pisma is also characterized by a certain dose of dignified poise or knowledge of the past and experienced as an indestructible entity beyond time that resists transience. And although there is nostalgia and melancholy over the past, the more dominant is the constructed technique of a kind of departure from time or transience, with which the lyrical subject perceives himself in the course of time. This technique allows the poet to simultaneously realize the freedom of singing and the discipline of expression, i.e. the intersection of layers of sound and meaning, which is why this book can be said to represent Milanović’s poetic expression.

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