The Sun Watches the Sun
Publisher: New Avenue Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: E-book
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781623143374
Description: The second collection of Dejan Stojanovic's verse, "The Sun is Watching Itself," is covered by a metaphysical and philosophical veil. Eleven segments are connected by these two abstract approaches and by such key images as a circle, suggesting infinity, and silence, reflecting space and eternity. The circle serves as a powerful symbol and a device of the perpetual in this poetry: "the end without endlessness is only a new beginning," claims the poet. Thus, one of the poems bears the title "God and Circle," symbolizing the perennial search for an exit and the eventual finding of one, which only leads into another circle and to continuous evolution. This prompts Stojanovic to pose the question "Is God himself a Circle?"--implying that God is endless and ever present. 

Although concise, the poems convey in a powerful and specific manner messages from the triad circle-God-eternity, connected by man's destiny and the poet's concept of human life and origins, and of the universe itself. In other words, microcosmic observations lead to macrocosmic revelations and didactic conclusions. The poems seem to teach us what is obvious in the context of common sense, often surprisingly remote to the modern man. 

In terms of style and format, the author has a coextensional approach; he uses relatively simple expressions and words in an interplay of brilliant meanings that bring about highly complex but easily readable structures. If elegance is represented by simplicity, then these are some of the most elegant verses imaginable; unadorned verses that are a source of beauty and wisdom. 

Stojanovic's perceptions of light and darkness, of fantasy and reality, of truth and falsehood present us with a circular format of infinity and resurrection. 

The format has its logical beginning and end. "The Sun is Watching Itself" begins with poems dedicated to God and the universe, then descends from the metaphysical to the philosophical, focusing on more ordinary such us the symbolic meaning of a stone, a game, a place, silence, hopelessness, and the question "Is it possible to write a poem?" Stojanovic's collection might well serve as an affirmative answer to this question. The poet has taken us on a long journey from God and universe to our everyday world. We all seem to be a part of a circle, says the author, searching for the eternal in the universe, only to realize the finality of life on earth. The poet's message is doubly effective for its extraordinary, soul-searching content and its reflective, powerful language. 

-Branko Mikasinovich, Washington, D.C.
WLT World Literature Today, A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 
Volume 74, Number 2, Page 442, Spring 2000
Table of contents: title: SKY-MOTION; title: The Most Beautiful Poem; title: First Silence; title: Top and Bottom; title: Marked by Infinity; title: Windmill; title: Holy Fire; title: Vortex; title: Cosmos; title: Cosmos Flower; title: Are You or Are You Not?; title: GOD AND CIRCLES; title: The Day of the Universe; title: Sky and Circle; title: The Truth of the Circle; title: God and a Circle; title: SKYWALKING; title: Rain of the Absolute; title: A Cloud; title: Cloud II; title: Light and Night; title: A Deceit; title: The Young Old Being; title: Eternity and Existence; title: Eternity and Eternity; title: Zero; title: Speed; title: Infinity and End; title: FORGOTTEN PLACE; title: Hearthstone; title: A Fairy Tale and the End; title: A Paradox; title: God’s Apprentice; title: Beguilement; title: Solid Ground; title: God Is Busy; title: Star in the Grass; title: His Letter; title: Forgotten Place; title: Fire; title: Reprise; title: A STONE AND A WORD; title: Where Does a Song End?; title: A Word; title: A First Word; title: A Stone and a Word; title: Combining Words; title: Hidden Words; title: Unuttered Words; title: Stories; title: Word Hypnosis; title: Just a Few Words; title: The Same Story; title: Thought; title: A Lie; title: Truth and Lie; title: Socrates; title: Tiredness; title: New Word; title: WHAT AFTER; title: Dumbness; title: Or; title: A Tame Sound; title: Here and There; title: Nothing; title: A Lantern; title: This and Like That; title: What Afterwards; title: The Knight; title: Knights; title: A GAME; title: No!; title: War; title: Things; title: Cheat; title: Circus; title: His Highness; title: The Dwarf; title: Virus of the Soul; title: Merit and Failure; title: Lengthening the Day; title: Game I; title: Game II; title: Game III; title: Reflection of an Upset Person; title: IS IT POSSIBLE TO WRITE A POEM; title: Does God Exist?; title: Insult I; title: God’s Son; title: Christ; title: Head; title: Life; title: A Flash of Silence; title: Benefactors; title: Is It Possible to write a Poem; title: Break; title: HOPELESSNESS; title: Paralysis; title: Face to Face; title: If; title: There and Here; title: Absurd; title: Insult II; title: Hoax; title: A Thought about Ourselves; title: A Question for the Sun; title: Séance; title: The Old Bench; title: Garden; title: SOUND OF THE SILENCE; title: Whisper Your Secret to Me; title: Somebody Always Waits; title: Simplicity; title: Empathy; title: The Way, the Road; title: Hell and Paradise; title: Flavor of the Field; title: Cure; title: A Light Beam; title: The Day; title: BEETHOVEN AND DEATH; title: Exits; title: Secret; title: Secret and the Truth; title: Treasury of the Source; title: Beethoven and Death; title: Same Sight; title: Maybe or Perhaps; title: About the Author