"Paris,Texas" Poetry Book

Poems on separations and new life beginnings

(e-books in English)

Referring to Wim Wender’s cult classic, but also to the movie Chungking Express by an equally cult director - Wong Kar-Wai, that show how life can be meaningless after break-ups, Vladan Krečković tells us in a very subtle way the story of separations.

The lyrical subject in Paris, Texas poetry book tries to find new life perspective in the journeys he makes, in looking at the family photographs, communicating with strangers in the YouTube comment section, in constantly reminiscing and reconsidering the past. This book offers a different life perspective of a romantic loss, a courageous step into the field of new sensibility, in which the following famous lines appear as a subtle motto: I knew these people, these two people. 

Paris, Texas book of poetry won the International Award "Bridges of Struga" 2021 as the best poetry book in the category of European debut poetry books. The book is translated to English by Kruna Petrić.
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Three poems from the book 


Paris, Texas 

My body is a tired storage,
a space too narrow
to hold memories.
A camper van and a cowbell
tied around your ankle,
while in your dreams
you kept running away naked
along a highway.

There is one more Paris,
just near the desert.
Its surface equals
four years of walking,
enough time to
turn a spine into an
abandoned rail track,

fit the memories
onto an eight millimeter tape,
which is why I remember you
only as the scars
on the emulsion of a cassette
pushed into the mouth
of a video-recorder.

When we named
our son Hunter,
I didn't know
I'd track you down
following a trail of
bank account numbers.

There are loves
resembling the Big Bang.
Their epilogue canfit
into a long telephone call,
the black hole of a handset.
Such monologues are different,
but always begin with the words:

I knew these people,
these two people.


March

I'm thinking about a summer holiday,
a tattoo on a blond girl
in a stuffy techno club.

I'm imagining the moment
a flock of birds
landed on her shoulder.


Love You for 10.000 Years

Days spent with you were
scenes from The Chungking Express,neon kisses,
soft cyclamen shirts.

I gave you my address and
left the doors of my flat unlocked,
allowed us to be an enigma
that I would never solve.

On the kitchen table
I used to find gold-fish
in a plastic bag,
a swarm of attainable dreams,
wild plants thriving
in small pots.

Before falling asleep
I'd gaze into your eyes.
You used to whisper:
The twenty-first century
is the age of signals,
I'll easily read your mind.

In my head I kept thinking
let's see California,
kept saying
I Iove you,
love you for 10.000 years.