Every Child Is Beautiful When Born: Selected Poems
By Esad Babačić
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Esad Babačić
Esad Babačić was born in 1965 in Ljubljana to a working-class migrant family. After completing his military service in Titograd, Babačić returned to Ljubljana and started studying Slovene language and literature, as well as Southern Slavic languages, at the Faculty of Arts. His poetry has been translated into many languages and has received several awards, notably the Velenjica-čaša nesmrtnosti (2014) award for 10 years of outstanding poetic work in the 21st Century.
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Every Child Is Beautiful When Born - Esad Babačić
Every Child Is Beautiful When Born
Selected Poems
Esad Babačić
Table of Contents
WHAT A POEM NEEDS
A NATIVE AMERICAN POEM
EVERY CHILD IS BEAUTIFUL WHEN BORN
THE RETREAT
THE DANUBE
THE OUTER STARS
TO THE SOLDIER OF SILENCE
THE WIND
THE DAY
ARARAT
B. B.
THE MELANCHOLY
THE PRESSURE
A PROPER POEM
A NAIVE POEM
TRIESTE
JLA
WHAT ELSE?
RAIN
A REVOLUTION
DEMOCRACY
THE PARTISAN POEM
A MACEDONIAN POEM
A GREEN LAND
A GLASS LAND
ĐIĐIKOVAC
ARRIVALS, DEPARTURES
THE STREET
MESSI
THE DECK
THE SEEKER
HARA-KIRI
THE DIVAN
THE PRAYER OF THE BUTTERFLY
A HEART
THE SAMURAI
WATER
THE PATIENCE
HEART II
THE WOLF
SNOW
KNIVES
THE COURAGE
DATES
THE WILL
A POEM
AMERICA
RUSSIANS
GRAY
LORCA
JOBUS
CANADA
PALESTINE
THE PERSPECTIVE
THE BANANA
AUTUMN
THE ELEPHANT
A SEA POEM
A TRANSITIONAL POEM
AN OUNCE
THE BODY SCENT
THE PILGRIMAGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY
SHIT
THE WHITE BLOOD
THE DARK SIDE OF PURE ENERGY
WOLVES
THE RAGE
PALACH
THE PEACE
WANNSEE
SYLVIA
AN EPITAPH
A MORNING
PICASSO
JANUARY
THE APARTMENT
BRDO
PAINTERS
THE NEWSPAPER
HORSES
ROMMEL
CARRY ME, CHILDREN, ON YOUR HANDS
THE DUSK
A PRAYER
WHALES
WHAT A POEM NEEDS
Air.
Plenty of air.
And a landscape.
A human in the middle,
sitting by the fire,
warming his hands.
Whales Do Not Showboat, 2000)
SpaceA NATIVE AMERICAN POEM
I’d like to live with a sky
that will devour me.
(Cut Off from the Sky, 2018)
SpaceEVERY CHILD IS BEAUTIFUL WHEN BORN
At first, you want to go out to count the stars.
The shadow is slow, it doesn’t catch
your thoughts.
Once you know how to run, you never give up,
once you know how to run, you attempt suicide.
If you were still alive, you’d laugh for