Poetry. Art. In collaboration with artist Metka Krašovec. Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins with the author. "Tomaž Šalamun is a prolific Slovenian poet whose work has been translated into many languages. The eight collections that have appeared in America have influenced many of our best younger poets.... Šalamun's poems pull you in, as well as seduce you into reading more closely and slowly. The language, particularly from line to line, keeps changing, like the world.... For what Šalamun's melancholia and Krašovec's sense of longing set in motion is a dance of words and images, of words that evoke images we cannot picture, and images that define a world that cannot be contained in words."—John Yau

Author City: Zagreb CRO

Born in Zagreb in 1941, Tomaž Šalamun attracted critical notice with his first collection, POKER, which was published when he was only twenty-five. His books have been translated into nineteen languages. He has received many honors and awards including the Preseren Prize, the Jenko Prize, and a Pushcart Prize.

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