The cigarettes have a very distinctive flavor of Virginian and Turkish tobacco
Can I recover my existing headliner instead of replacing it
Research shows that using e-cigarettes is just as harmful as smoking traditional cigarettes
Really happy that I got to smell, No
Yet these poems speak from a post-catastrophic perspective and, despite the weight of grief, turn toward a larger mythopoetic context: In this world, I believe / there is nothing lost, only translated. With quiet gravity, they unfold and exert an immersive pull, finding connection, comfort, and grounding in nature: when all is done, / and we are laid down in the earth, we might / listen, and hear love spoken back to us. I gave birth prematurely / and breastfed for two years and he was nowhere / near to talking and he ran and ran all the time / and I lived alone in an apartment overlooking / the roofs in her poems and especially in her autobiographically inflected verse novel deca (LOM, 2021), awarded the NIN Prize for best novel of the year and published in German translation by Mirjana and Klaus Wittmann as Kinder (Edition Korrespondenzen, 2025), Milena Markovi (born 1974 in Belgrade) powerfully interweaves the traumas of her violence-marked youth in 1980s and 1990s Yugoslavia, drug excesses, life with her mother, who has dementia, and her cognitively impaired son
