The Potent Word: The Poetry of Branko Miljković

B. Miljkovic's poetry communicates the urgency & inadequacy he felt in dealing with the world. Miljkovic sought to negate death through poetry &, if he did not succeed, his failure was equal to victory. His poetry displays his fractured sense of the objective world, in which he gives primary power to words. Fire is his fundamental symbol, underlying nearly all his images. His is a world of perfect alienation & despair through his understanding of the truth beyond the world of appearances, brought forth with purity & power. T. Lamb