In Another Country

Overview

Anchored by the desire to find a home in a place of in-betweenness—among cultures, languages and identities—In Another Country reflects on war and memory, death and art, love and desire, and the immigrant experience. While containing arresting imagery and various cultural references, such as American film and music, these poems nod to other artists who have made their home away from their homeland, such as the Turkish writer and director Emine Sevgi Özdamar. Although Jurjevic’s poems navigate the disorienting terrain of self, they have a strong sense of geography and concrete reality. These poems wear a dark sensuality. They are inquisitive, direct, and at times erotic.

Author Biography

Andrea Jurjevic is the author of two poetry collections and a chapbook: In Another Country, selected by Roberto Tejada for the 2022 Saturnalia Books Prize; Small Crimes (Anhinga Press, 2017), selected by C. G. Hanzlicek for the 2015 Philip Levine Prize, and Nightcall (Willow Springs Editions, 2021), which was chosen for the ACME Poem Company Surrealist Poetry Series. Andrea’s book-length translations from Croatian include Olja Savicevic’s Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Marko Pogacar’s Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020), shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award.