ABSTRACT
Oranges and Snow collects forty-five poems from work that reveals a distinct sensibility and recurrent themes treated in original ways. Djordjevic at once focuses on and muses about daily life; he has a sharp, the inquisitive eye, but he also lets his mind wander; and he manages to tie up everything by the end, which often comes in the form of a question, explicitly raised or not. Half in jest, half in earnest, such poems about common everyday objects stand out in this collection. There are pieces about potatoes, bread, an aquarium, spiders, ants, pigeons, a crow, an orange, and flying beetles, not to forget less common herbs from the Himalayas, which are brought to the poet by his daughter and provoke sundry similes, such as when he likens them to "what quivers and thickly sprouts and flourishes in dreams".
