About the Book
Erasing Your Trace is a poetry collection by Miloš Brkić, originally published in Serbian in 2022 under the title Brišem ti trag. The book moves through the intimate spaces of memory, longing, silence, loss, and emotional return.
Its poems are shaped by a confessional voice, but they do not close themselves into direct explanation. Instead, they leave room for suggestion, inner tension, and the quiet presence of what remains unsaid.
At its core, the collection explores the traces people leave within one another — the fragile marks of love, absence, and time that continue to exist even after everything visible has disappeared.
From the Review
The poetry collection Brišem ti trag by Miloš Brkić gathers a whole range of remarkable poems in which the poet reveals the high intensity of his poetic sensitivity. With ritual ease, Brkić has written a rich body of poems that could themselves become the subject of a separate critical and essayistic study.
His confessional poems are not absolutely closed or fully resolved; rather, they open toward something unforeseen, and at times even transcendent. They suggest and intuit more than they state directly. That is why these poems carry the value of what is sensed beyond the words.
All secrets are written within ourselves, not outside us — this is, in essence, what the poet Miloš Brkić wishes to communicate. And one reaches the secret through the language of secrecy, through a personal script. This is why Brkić’s poetry is directed toward the space of the intimate circle and the inner eye — a space from which one steps beyond the world.