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Beginning from 1954 when he appeared with his first poems, Bogdan Džuver (1936) his experience of the World and Human was shaped artistically in the form of poetic expression through more than ten poetry collections with diligent consistency, noticeable erudition and peak lucidity. He brought into them the sum of existential, creative and intellectual experiences and knowledge. Sum of humankind experience, one man's wisdom in 'survival' of life, found their place in Džuver's poetry, and in remarks, appendixes, processes and corrections, commentaries, and diary entries, whose abundance testifies on the inexhaustible energy of this a priori 'artistic worker' (creator). His creative imagination and rich erudition have been articulated into meditative-reflective the ton of his, both as per sonority and meaning, unique and particular poems. By naming the state of spirit in the process of creation as a 'workshop of spirit', Bogdan Džuver represents himself as an artist of rich creative spirit whose spiritual curiosity for cognition as the essence of the world and human is inexhaustible. His poetry reveals existential drama, ontologically founded as the fight with the 'Death'. That fight is becoming a paradigmatic form of singing and thinking of this little studied, we dare to say, poet-thinker. The feeling of transience and fragility of all existent, the being and thinking, have no consolation, but have sense in creativity, in promethean readiness to oppose the certainty of the Death through the Word which is arhe, the beginning of the world.

Figure out the riddle of life and poetry of Radojko Jovanović - Rade Drainac is not easy at all. How to speak up about the man who has lived and tortured himself for forty four years (Trbulje 1899 - Belgrade 1943) in a versatile and rough manner as hundreds of other unusual creative people, longevity, and spinsters. Cursed poet, unfortunate, king of bohemians, misled, solitary, restless spirit, outlaw who has never surrendered until the death. Poet of emotions, pain, rebellion, spasm, whose poems are at one moment weeping and wailing, at another anger, curse and spit, afterwards anxious heart, turbulent blood flow, bustling mind and underground of being. The poet of intoxicated poetry, story-teller, essays-writer, novelist... Adventurer in his life, adventurer in poetry for whom it can be said how he lived so he wrote, painfully, restlessly, fragmented, bouncy, uneven, poetized... Poet of the collection 'The Blue Laughter'(1920) which he published in his 21st year of life, and journalist from 1922 - these two occupations will remain the life commitment of this adventurous and restless man. He was essentially poet and journalist (as such he was the author of travelling and documentary reports, literary critic and theoretician, sociologist of domestic and world scene, and reverse of its modernity), but he wished to be the holder of many roles: painter, protector of workers and poor ones, revolutionary... This modest review is a scrapbook on 70 years of his death (1943-2013).