Within an intimate register, the verses of the poems or parts of this book came into being — a book without individual titles or clearly defined cycles. The poet’s thought, in a certain sense, has neither beginning nor end; it simply exhausts its meanings in the questioning of existing life and of the imaginative one, measured by the ticking of a surreal clock.

The poetic language of this poet convincingly places him among those authors who have made a visible contribution to contemporary language and to established literary values. For that reason, I recommend the book Framing Reality to the publisher and to the reading public without reservation, emphasizing its significant poetic achievements.

Before us is a multitude of beautiful lyrical fragments that connect with one another and harmonize into a large unified whole, marked by remarkable lyrical strength, spiritual message, intellectual insight, and an accessible sound and meaning that characterize only exceptional creators — among whom Brkić undoubtedly belongs. This spiritual distinctiveness of intellectual maturity, the ease of singing, painting, and evoking poetic images born as the product of a creative metaphorical narrative about someone or something, speaks clearly of his linguistic and stylistic uniqueness, which is the foundation of every act of singing, writing, or speaking.

Framing Reality is a new bibliographic work that will be gladly received by all well-intentioned lovers of fine literature, by its proven connoisseurs, theorists and literary critics alike, by publishers and librarians — and by those fortunate few who, for the sake of a gift, may soften an unconquered heart with a book, make it gentler, and lead it into a “delicate sleep.”