• Publisher: Mladika
• 56 pages
• Author: Marija Kostnapfel
• Original title: Pesmi

Marija Kostnapfel's Poems are unconventional poems with an efficient personal style, lyrical glimpses from which the feeling of anxiety and uncertainty, hopelessness, loneliness, emptiness and the pain of the lost emerges. The poet is aware that the way back is no longer possible, she only has a memory, which can only be realized in a poem. The anxiety that the poet feels is at times so strong that even her poetic language shrinks to the extreme, almost reaching the silence. In Poems, which is the author's literary debut, it is about "poetry of nihilistic sobering of the extreme kind, about expulsion from all former states of security, both existential and poetic, as well as linguistic," prof. Marija Pirjevec writes in the accompanying foreword.

About the author

Marija Kostnapfel

Marija Kostnapfel (Trieste, 1959) after graduating in Slovene from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the University of Udine, got a job as a professor of Slovene and history at the Žiga Zois Institute in Gorizia. For several years, she also taught the Slovenian language at the Faculty of Education of the University of Trieste. She mainly published poetry (in the magazines Sodobnost, Zaliv, Nova revija, Mladika) and professional notes on Slovenian literature (the diploma thesis on France Balantič was translated into German and published by Rudolf Trofenik's publishing house in Munich; she published an article in the magazine Münchener Zeitschrift fur Balkankunde about the still unknown letter of F.M. Appendini to Matija Čop). In 2016, her first poetry collection, Pesmi (Poems), was published by the Mladika publishing house. In 2018, the songs were also published in the Italian translation Pesmi/Poesie.