Soiled With Earth, Drunk On Air Format: Cloth Over Boards

Plants are the protagonists in Soiled With Earth, Drunk On Air, Sibila Petlevski’ s self-translated poetry collection written between 2019 and 2020. This collection is a libretto for whispering to magical herbs and listening to the voices of silence. In many ways, these poems predicted the fear and isolation of the global pandemic lockdown, while also offering up a strategy to overcome these hardships through understanding people as a part of nature. These are verses for the ecology of the spirit.

Sibila Petlevski is the author of twenty-three fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry books. She is a member of l’ Acadé mie Europé enne de Poé sie, International PEN, serving two mandates on the International PEN Board (2002-2007), and Association of the Women of the Mediterranean Region. She has received the Vladimir Nazor Annual National Prize for Literature and Arts (1993); her play Eisgeneral was selected at Berliner Festspiele TT Stü ckemarkt (2005); and she received the first Poeteka International Poetry Prize (2005).