POEMS / PESME (bilingual book / dvojezična knjiga) – Nik Novak

Nik Novak – PESME / POEMS (dvojezična knjiga / bilingual book) –

Nik Novak’s poetry is direct, often explicit, stripped-down sensibility that always implies modernity and which always implies criticism of everything that is deviant in its own time, and the deviations of our time of alienation are quite terrible and numerous. Nik Novak writes very “wide” poetry, so it ranges from elegiac and love lyrics, through kind of essays about kindness and love (towards dogs and people), through politically-engaged poems, and up to rock’n’roll and underground mannerism similar to beatnik and rock poetry. His poems are not too polished, because there is no time for prematurely dealing with cosmetics when the feeling boils over, and in this book the sensitivity boils over in all directions…

Poezija Nika Novaka je direktna, često eksplicitna, ogoljena osećajnost koja uvek podrazumeva ovovremenost i koja uvek podrazumeva i kritiku svega što je devijantno u sopstvenom vremenu, a devijacije našeg vremena otuđenosti podosta su strašne i brojne. Nik Novak piše veoma „široku“ poeziju, pa se kreće od elegičnosti i ljubavne lirike, preko svojevrsnih eseja o dobroti i ljubavi (prema psima i ljudima), preko angažovano-političnih pesama, pa do rock’n’roll i underground manirizma nalik na bitničku i rock-poeziju… Njegove pesme nisu previše nalickane, jer se nema vremena za pretarano bavljenje kozmetikom kad osećenje prokulja, a u ovoj knjizi osećajnost kulja na sve strane. Mišljenja sam da moderna poezija i treba da bude ovakva, gola i jaka, eksplicitna i opominjuća, kritička i direktna…

Milomir Bata Cvetković