ХЕТЕРОЛОШКИТЕ АСПЕКТИ ВО ПОЕЗИЈАТА НА АЦО ШОПОВ / HETEROLOGY ASPECTS OF ACO ŠOPOV`S POETRY

Abstract

Aco Šopov is a poet who, with the power of his pen, with the power of
his poetic imagination, with the power of his words, marked the thread along which
contemporary Macedonian poetry moved. If the folk poem marked his first poetic phase,
already in the later poems, especially with the idea of Not-being, the personal and the
individual merge with the folk poem on a higher creative level. The entire poetic work of
Aco Šopov is deeply intertwined with his childhood, his hometown and his homeland.
However, it is a known fact that one has to go far to hear the truth, to go outside to see it
inside, to run away from oneself to find it again. Such is the lyrical, intimate biography of
this masterful poet, who wrote Song of the Black Woman as a poetic testament to his stay
in Africa. There he will take his providence to find his own daughter. And there on that
ancient continent, discovering the world, he discovers his homeland. It is the crossroads
of two othernesses – one’s own and another’s. One – black Africa with all its symbols
and landscapes, and the other – the homeland, deeply experienced and just discovered.
This paper aims to show the heterological aspects of Aco Šopov’s poetry in which the
emphasis is placed on the Other/Other category, which establishes a system of binary
opposition with the Self/Sameness category and their fusion as a concept of Between.
Behind the One and the Other, one’s own and another’s, looms the Third that connects
and enables connection.