Tomaz Salamun

Kiss the Eyes of Peace

Selected Poems, 1964-2014
Übersetzer: Henry, Brian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An authoritative volume representing the vast oeuvre of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and visionary poets"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Abmessung: 215mm x 139mm
• ISBN-13: 9781639550401
• ISBN-10: 1639550402
• Artikelnr.: 68365121

Autorenporträt

Tomaž Šalamun was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry and his work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. A curator and conceptual artist prior to becoming an acclaimed poet, his honors include the Prešeren Prize, the European Prize for Poetry, the Mladost Prize, the Jenko Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. He served as Cultural Attaché to the Slovenian Embassy in New York and, in addition to serving as a Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University, held various visiting professorships across the United States. He died in Ljubjiana, Slovenia, in 2014. Brian Henry is the translator of Tomaž Šalamun’s Selected Poems and Woods and Chalices, as well as Aleš Debeljak’s Smugglers and six books by Aleš Šteger, most recently Burning Tongues: New and Selected Poems. Henry is also the author of Permanent State, ten other books of poetry, and the collection of essays, Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation . His work has received numerous honors, including two NEA fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, and the Best Translated Book Award. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ilya Kaminsky 
Introduction by Brian Henry 
Poker (1966)
The Purpose of a Cloak (1968) 
Pilgrimage for Maruška (1971)
White Ithaka (1972) 
Amerika (1972)
Arena (1973)
Falcon (1974)
Turbines (1975)
Imre (1975)
Druids (1975)
Feast (1976)
Stars (1977)
Angel’s Method (1978)
The History of Light Is Orange (1979) 
On the Tracks of Game (1979) 
Masks (1980)
Ballad for Metka Krašovec (1981)
Analogies of Light (1982)
The Voice (1983) 
Sonnet about Milk (1984) 
Soy Realidad (1985)
Ljubljana Spring (1986)
The Measure of Time (1987)
Living Wound, Living Juice (1988)
The Child and the Deer (1990) 
Ambergris (1995) 
Black Swan (1997) 
Book for My Brother (1997)
Sea (1999) 
Woods and Chalices (2000)
Blackboards (2002)
From There (2003)
With Archilochus by the Cyclades (2004)
To sink in the nets under the olive trees (2004) 
Sun’s Chariot (2005)
Blue Tower (2007)
Njanja visits me out of nowhere like a fish (2008) 
Deception (2008)
Cold Fairy Tales (2009)
Season (2010)
Robber (2010)
Opera Buffa (2011)
Andes (2012)
Michael is ours! (2012)
Breath (2013)
Mollusk (2013)
Fate (2013)
Babies (2014)
Orgies (2015)
The One Who Raises a Paw Is Asleep (2015)
And Everywhere There Was Snow (2021)
Appendix
Notes 
Acknowledgments xxx