Poetry. LGBT Studies. Translated from the Slovenian by Elizabeta Žargi and Timothy Liu. Fifty powerful and unsettling untitled poems make up this mesmerizing collection by distinguished Slovenian writer Brane Mozetič. In these poems, Mozetič confronts meaninglessness and pleasure, melancholoy and excitement, often focusing on the pain we inflict on one another and especially on the pain we inflict on ourselves.

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Born in Ljubljana, Brane Mozetič (b. 1958) is a poet, prose writer, an editor and translator from French (Rimbaud, Genet, Foucault, Guibert, Dustan, Duvert etc.). He has published ten colections of poems and three fiction books. His books have been translated into several languages, including, in English, two books of poetry, BUTTERFLIES (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2004) and BANALITIES (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2008), a volume of short stories, PASSION (Talisman House, Publishers, 2005), and a novel, LOST STORY (Talisman House, Publishers, 2011).

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