According to the publisher, Ceija Stojka is the first Romani woman to have talked and written about the Porajmos (the genocide during ww2). It makes me happy to see a publishing house not only publishing such an important text, a testimony of a history that has been -unfortunately still is- ignored, but also to see how deeply the publishers care about Ceija's work and memory.

As both someone who loves poetry and someone who comes from a part-Romani family, I couldn't wait to read this book. I was a bit scared I wouldn't like this style of poetic writing and it turns out I did enjoy most of the poems, as dark and emotional as they are, as contemporary as they are. I can't read German so I read only the French translation and obviously can't judge the translation work here, but I think it's quite accessible enough to understand what the poetess wanted to convey. I do think I read the collection a bit too fast but I know I'll come back to it in the future.