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Writings
Writing came first, and it still underwrites everything else. These are prose pieces, poems, and prose poems. They tend to follow people who move at their own difficult speed, and to stay with what resists being resolved.
Raum für die Wahrheit
Space for Truth · written in German
The text that won the Schreibhain literary stipend. It is built from interconnected monologues that cross generations and time — a mosaic of voices circling loss, longing, and the impossibility of resolution. It later became the seed of the sound installation Already Not Here.
Read the full text“From the very first sentence, Bulović narrates with intensity, almost intimacy. The world that gradually opens before us is, at first, an unfamiliar one. Present and past condition each other. A mosaic of narrative voices — as powerful as it is fragile.” Schreibhain Jury, Jahrgang XXIV ↗
“She was a woman who took three times longer to walk from her house to the bar than from the bar back home.”
Read the full piece“Heavy is the hand with which I write this. Heavier than when I use it to punch. Heavier than when I use it to lift the tenth glass of hard liquor.”
Read the full piece“Like every day, as he was leaving his apartment, he carefully collected the fog that was gathering behind his glasses.”
Read the full piece“Will you hitchhike with me across Europe? The road is, I think, ready.”
Read the full piece“A swinging-legged walker with thighs that seemed almost to shake off of her bones stopped right in front of me.”
Read the full pieceEvery piece can be read in full here. For readings, translations, or the longer manuscripts, write to me.