IN CROATIAN LANGUAGE

Here is yet another noted book by Nasja Meyer, member of Lodge 50 from St. Louis, MO, instructor of the Croatian language, and co-author of the well-known Croatian textbook  "Croatia-- The Country and Language" that she wrote with her daughter, Dr. Jasna Meyer.  The new book is a collection of poetry titled "Five Red Rubies" ("Pet rubina crvenih") published in Croatia.

The book is hard cover, printed on high quality paper and illustrated by a well known water color artist, Lenka Zavirsek, from Split.  It contains over 200 poems, all but one in Croatian.  The Catholic newspaper, "Glas Koncila", reviewed it positively: "Poems by Nasja Boskovic Meyer are lyrical miniatures from which there in nothing to add or take away.  The poetess accepted the foreign country in which she lives and to which she shows due respect, but she never parted with her own homeland, and even less with her native Split.
And the collection "Five Red Rubies" is a witness that she in far away America thinks in Croatian."

Mladen Vukovic, reporter at Radio Split, at the signing of her book in the city library "Marko Marulic" in Split said: "Today at the beginning of the third millenium Nasja with her published texts and poetry notably enriched the Croatian written word in North America.  When in the future, someone publishes a new anthology of Croatian immigrant poetry, after the one Ivo Smoljan tried years ago, that person will not be able to overlook Nasja Meyer, whose poetry is marked by passion for return, as much geographically to the homeland, as in time to the naive warmth of childhood and dear ones.

This is a break away from our existing immigrant poetry.  Nasja Boskovic Meyer abandons pedestrian tradition, classical verse, and the cliche of cheap pathos.  In an intimate and contemporary beat, she turns to the homeland and Split, as a well and spring for her inspiration.

And in the end a few words about the cover of her book, adorned by a fully ripe pomegranate, which we pick these September days, it bursts just like this book is bursting with poems.  Furthermore, Nasja's prophetic title "Five Red Rubies" inspired by a necklace with five rubies that her husband gave her close to the end of the fifth decade of their married life, or maybe as five symbols of their nuclear family, as if they want to send us a message-- let's toast with a glass of ruby red wine to this interesting and worthy book."

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK WILL BE SHIPPED DIRECTLY FROM ST. LOUIS BY THE BOOK'S AUTHOR

 Evo jos jedne vrijedne knjige autorice udzbenika za hrvatski jezik, Nasje Boskovic Meyer i nastavnice hrvatskog jezika i kulture.