"The remarkable Serbian poet Dubravka Djuric began her career as a minimalist/ conceptualist in a late socialist Yugoslavia, only to find herself becoming the voice of the "the thunder's sanctuary/ the sanctuary of words" that marked the breakdown of Yugoslavia and its terrible civil wars of the 1990s. Djuric's experimental poetry--feminist, passionate, and hallucinatory--captures the cataclysm of history, right down to the present Ukrainian war. Her great subject, "the language of (multiple) identities," is here rendered into English, with an interview, by the Serbian-American poet-translator Biljana D. Obradovic. To read THE POLITICS OF HOPE is to experience great pain--but also the strength of self-discovery and survival." -- Marjorie Perloff

"THE POLITICS OF HOPE --a collection of Dubravka Djuric's poems finally translated into English --is a rare gift. These poems are full of the tension of what it means to be a poet in a time of intense nationalism. Djuric's turn is to evoke a global experimentalism so as to resist to be a part of that nationalism. And the poems here know what matters: a swallow, but not just any swallow, the swallow of a larger encompassing tradition that echoes back to Basho." -- Juliana Spahr