Darija Zili¿ is an original personality of recent Croatian literature. Multilevel: an excellent poet, a meticulous and analytical critic and essayist, an interesting prose writer, and an occasional travel writer. Prolific. Curious. Inquisitive. With broad aesthetic affinities and open to the differences of various narratives and perceptions of life, otherworldliness, and literature. Darija Zili¿ is original in both vitality and crystallized thoughtfulness. Her poetry is in a constant contest and clash of bipolarity: bitter survival and the dreaminess of the otherworld, love and mortality, body and torment, the shell of existence in a struggle with the essences of being. Eternal, undulating questions to be answered as precisely as possible
