Hope: A Review of Faruk Šehić’s My Rivers

“There is something deeply satisfying and articulate about a powerless generation holding power to account with poetry, articulating optimism against nihilism. In Bosnia, the Mangled Generation now conducts a continuing dialogue of truth-seeking with the multi-state kleptocracy in the former Yugoslavia, a pivotal dialogue that emblematises this determination towards brighter days ahead. My Rivers continues this necessary conversation, offering up a method of articulation that imagines a better version of our common world, with all the strength that it will take to build it.”

Read the full review here.

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