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In Croatian, lovostaj means “closed season”—a time when hunting is prohibited. Animals that are hunted by humans are allowed to relax during this time of year, not having to live in fear of being shot. The poems gathered in this award-winning collection by Monika Herceg fuse physics with politics to create righteously angry and alarmingly memorable poems that explore new ways to express the horrors women the world over have been, and are continually, forced to deal with in a painfully patriarchal world.
Monika Herceg, a Croatian poet, screenwriter, dramatist, editor, and activist, is the author of three poetry books: Početne koordinate (Initial Coordinates, 2018), Lovostaj (Closed Season, 2019), and Vrijeme prije jezika (2020). She has received many prestigious national and international awards, including the European Poet of Freedom Award 2024. A physicist by profession, she spent her childhood in the village of Pecki near Petrinja. A mother of two, she lives and works in Zagreb.
Marina Veverec is a student of literary translation at the University of Zadar, Croatia. Her English-language translations have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Exchanges, Harvard Review, and Words Without Borders. She also translated Initial Coordinates, Monika Herceg’s first book of poetry to appear in English.
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