Dejan Stojanović

[4] According to critic Petar V. Arbutina, "Stojanović belongs to the small and autochthonous circle of poets who have been the main creative and artistic force of the Serbian poetry in the last several decades.

In 1999, shortly after the war in Kosovo ended, these manuscripts, along with his library of more than a thousand books (carefully chosen for years), were lost due to a fire.

The firm's staff included writers from Belgrade, one of whom was Alek Vukadinović, a Serbian poet who supported Stojanović's plan to publish a magazine.

At this time, he began a series of interviews with several Serbian writers in Belgrade, including Momo Kapor, Alek Vukadinović, and Nikola Milošević.

[17] During this time, he conducted interviews with prominent American writers, including Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow, Charles Simic, and Steve Tesich.

This is especially characteristic of the books, The Sign and its Children,[20] The Shape,[21] and The Creator[22] (Znak I njegova deca,[23][24] Oblik,[25] Tvoritelj[26] ), in which, with a relatively small number of words repeated in different contexts, Stojanović built his own poetic cosmogony.

[27] In his poems, he covers the smallest and the largest topics with equal attention, often juxtaposing them to the level of paradox and absurdity, gradually building new perspectives and meanings that are not only poetic either in origin or in purpose.

Dejan Stojanović, Belgrade, 1981
Saul Bellow and Dejan Stojanović, University of Chicago , 1992
Dejan Stojanović, Chicago, 1991