The poems in Smugglers move through rapid historical shifts and
meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits
of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans.
Ultimately, Ales Debeljak's urban imagination creates a
mosaic-intimate and historical-of a vanished people and their
country. Every poem in Smugglers is sixteen lines long-four
quatrains, a common form for Debeljak. This structural regularity
is reinforced by a commitment to visual balance, with each poem
working as a kind of grid into which the poet pours memories and
associative riffs. From "Bookstore": At least you are blessed.
Winter's here. In darkness, awake since yesterday, I came to browse
again through the titles of old books, wobbly skyscrapers, writers
of my youth and stiffened honey. No opening hours on the door, a
minor poet with no woman sits behind files in the front. I know him
from when we all shouted in one loyal voice, collected works on
sale for a handful of cents, read the holy Kapital like zealots.
Well, okay: not exactly all. Some of us took another road ...Ales
Debeljak's books have appeared in English, Japanese, German,
Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak,
Finnish, Lithuanian, and Italian translations. He teaches in the
department of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana in
Slovenia. Brian Henry is the author of ten books of poetry and won
the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. He teaches at University of
Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
General
| Imprint: |
B O a Editions, Limited
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 2015 |
| Authors: |
Ales Debeljak
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| Translators: |
Brian Henry
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| Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
112 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-938160-67-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-938160-67-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781938160677 |
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