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Marija Simokovic. Kinovar. Belgrade. Narodna knjiga. 2007. 164 pages. ISBN 978-86-331-2887-2
It is hard to make the work of women artists visible in the Balkans. Only in 2006 did a significant number of women poets feature in an anthology of contemporary Serbian poetry-compiled by a woman, university professor, poet, and critic Bojana Stojanovic Pantovic (Nebolomstvo). Almost none of those names is found in an anthology compiled the same year by a man-poet, critic, and editor Gojko Bozovic-and translated into English (The Place We Love: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Poetry). Consider also that in 2008 a prestigious Serbian poetry award, the Branko Miljkovic prize, went to a female poet for the third time in its thirty-seven years of existence. The winning poet...