Kraška pokrajina in čustva v pesništvu Srečka Kosovela

This article explores the impressionistic poetry of Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926), inspired by his native Karst landscape, through a geopolitical and geoecological lens. The Karst Plateau, as experienced by the poet, was undergoing transformation. During the interwar period, this area was part of Italy, bordering Kingdom of SCS, and its landscape was being heavily changed by the growth of Austrian pine, a result of afforestation policies. To Kosovel, the Karst revealed itself as both a »foreign homeland« and a »familiar foreign land«; from this experience of liminality emerged a poetics that fundamentally shapes his Karst poems.