• Publisher: ŠKUC
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• Original title: Telo pokončno

The body is constantly under attack. Everything hits it, everything sticks to it. The body is not the final harbour of freedom, but a point that the world uninhibitedly cuts into, throws endless amounts of words and violence at it and sometimes simply by- passes it, thus negating it.If Dragičević’ book Luv Says Let’s Go focused on the position of a female indi- vidual in the age of omnipresent precariousness and, in the end, luv said let’s go, the question that follows in the second part of the author’s trilogy in the making, This Body, Upright, is: and what then? Can there be a future? Yes. But the body needs peace. In an age that promotes constant communica- tion, the representation of endurance and a type of “cool”, the body needs something completely different: it needs peace. Dragičević starts the book with the verse no words, thus opening the space to the voices of many bodies, many women and many lesbians, perhaps all bodies. There will be a future when their sufferings, negations and criticism can be expressed without punishment. And it is true that the body falls sometimes, she writes, but because everything is wrong / it actually rises. With This Body, Upright, Dragičević thickens its special mixture of criticism and lyrical sentiment, with language and syntactic ingenuity in the form of a poem. Aljoša Harlamov, the author of the foreword, writes: “And it’s not that I don’t get the self-irony in the verses nina strong critical nina a pillar of her generation and that we need people like that, but. That’s the people we have. Finally.”