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Oral Sex Is the Only Honest Prayer

Two poems by Andrea Jurjević

Oral Sex Is the Only Honest Prayer

Pussy Smoke

After Vedrana Rudan

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Summer of 69

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About the Author

Andrea Jurjević is a Croatian poet, writer, and literary translator. She is the author of two poetry collections and a chapbook: In Another Country, winner of the 2022 Saturnalia Books Prize; Small Crimes, winner of the 2015 Philip Levine Prize; and Nightcall, which was the 2021 ACME Poem Company Surrealist Series selection. Andrea’s book-length translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry.

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