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PETRA KOLMANČIČ
Slina
("Saliva")

(70 pages, in Slovene language, illustrated, published in 1998)

The third collection of poetry by Petra Kolmančič is divided into 4 sections which comprise 58 poems. A foreword was written by Bojan Tomažič. Varja Velikonja observes: "Petra's poetry is urban poetry of a contemporary human being. Genuine. That cannot be captured. At one moment meditative, calm, though generally intensive and explosive. Female. An extraordinary female desire. Longing after him, the body, the flesh… , the difference which is not it. They are always different. She is always Herself. The same. She is eager to take in the world, passionate and consumed by all senses, through all pores and perceptions of a female being. No empty longing. Facts only."