Roller-skating Notes

ABOUT ROLLER-SKATING NOTES FOR INGRAM FROM BACK COVER Teleported across the Iron Curtain Zivancevic sounds the hidden alienation of a language on the brink of mantras of the unsayable compulsively disgorged in lieu of a politic of linguistic refuge. Poetry is not as Adorno claimed impossible after Auschwitz any more than it is impossible after the Soviet Union or the present drowning of the planet in commodified junk but the contrary: such catastrophes make language possible in its critical poetic aspect.- Louis ArmandIn this book Nina Zivancevic is a stand-up poet in the true tradition of the great stand-up comedians like Lenny Bruce for instance like Groucho Marx. But shes more than that! When Nina Zivancevics says in her poem Active Artists Reforming Action No Im not an Anarchist/My grandfather did it for me... then youre really in the presence of someone whose every poem is an assault on the senses a bullet to your ears.- Gerard MalangaThis transnational writer reflects on her current life in Paris France and the situation with migrants her past in Belgrade Yugoslavia and its civil war as well as New York US and its problems with gentrification. But she also speaks regarding other current or past events like the civil war in Syria and Afghanistan. We delight in her reflections on ancient Greece; philosophers like Nietzsche Freud Hannah Arendt and Zizek; painters and composers like Chagall Chopin and Liszt; and even drug lord El Chapo Guzman.- Biljana D. Obradovic Xavier University of LouisianaAs usual Nina Zivancevics poems do a bunch of things Ive been trying to figure out for years. She is basically the master mathematician of ideas translated into poetry.- Malik Ameer Crumpler author of Beneath the Underground Collected Raps