The publishing house “Buybook” published the poetry collection “Tabakera” by Jasmine Bikić, which was promoted in the Youth Center in Sarajevo.
The promotion started with verses from that book, then the promoter Jasminka Šipka read two more poems ‘Homeland’ and ‘Šeher’, congratulating BiH Independence Day. Then the reviewers of the book, the writer Fahrudin Kučuk and the writer Indira Kučuk Sorguč, addressed as well.
“Tabakera’s lyrical gifts are divided into four groups, which are suggestive and picturesque in terms of language, but are stylistically diverse, so that an ordinary reader, if he were to read them in isolation from the book, would not be able to conclude that poems such as ‘Life’, ‘Grandfather’, ‘Death’ and ‘Instead of a review’ are the works of the same author,” said writer Indira Kučuk Sorguč, among other things, in an inspired speech, Fena news agency writes.
She placed special emphasis on the last part of the book “Present bez perfekta”, stating that in it “the author is a vigilant watchdog of the new era that transforms the technology of words into signs, reducing speech to cryptograms and digital idioms, in which her eye sees great dehumanizing differences between life with live pulsating face-to-face communication and this hidden, coded, shattered into pieces of emoticons and games”.
“Jasmina Bikić has made a very good point with these encounters of the modern and the transient, where she solves the riddle of life. Everything is in the service of man, as entertainment or a signpost to suffering. She sends us a clear message that both life and death are messages, both are life companions of man who cannot postpone the end. The author’s striking, concise, rhythmic and unmasking writing in the book ‘Tabakera’ is an invitation to the reader to encounter the truth of life”, said, among others, writer Fahrudin Kučuk.
At the promotion, the songs ‘Sidran’, ‘Nedžad’, ‘Norma’, ‘Hase’, ‘Strauss’ were read in a great interpretation by Jasminka Šipka, with music provided by prof. by Addis Vuga’s piano.
“As you could hear, the book ‘Tabakera’ talks about our great men, who made our homeland famous. And ‘Tabakera’ also talks about what the author does today as a lawyer. I had the opportunity to read some of these poems last summer. I immediately said, ‘Dear Jasmina, you must not keep this to yourself, you must publish the book as soon as possible’, and today I am happy that she listened to me,” said Jasminka Šipka.
At the end of that promotion, the author spoke, opening her ‘Tabakera’.
“In ‘Tabakera’ there are songs about the cities and rivers, and other riches of our homeland, to which we congratulate on this occasion the Independence Day, as well as about the greats who marked the period behind us, such as, in addition to the songs you have heard, the legendary Mirza Delibašić Kindje, Želimir Vidović Keli, Prof. Dr. Ismet Gavrankapetanović, Prof. Jasminka Šipka, General Jovan Divjak, the mother of the heroine Halida Bojadži, the hero from Heroes’ Square Adnan Midžić, the first child victim Siege of Sarajevo Aida Kučuk and many others…
There are also songs about my parents and other family members who are unfortunately not with us, but also about those without whose support I would not have been able to do all of this, about my son Hamza and my husband Muhamed, who will see the light of day on Sarajevo City Day in the new documentary “Bulevar Ivice Osima”, in which the song “Strauss” is featured.
At the promotion, with thunderous applause and standing on their feet, the Dom mladih Amphitheater greeted BiH sports greats and heroes Ismail Barlov, Ismail Zulfić and their coach Amel Kapo, to whom the author dedicated the song ‘Ribice’, which was also interpreted.
