The poems in Ales Steger's The Book of Bodies roam across personal
experience, human history, and the natural world to unlock
intellectual and emotional connections. Ales Steger's The Book of
Bodies directly follows-and builds on and veers from-The Book of
Things. The 50 poems in The Book of Things focus on such everyday
objects as umbrellas, chairs, and candles, and in so doing
illuminate the human condition, particularly its propensity for
violence, deception, and forgetting. The 50 poems in The Book of
Bodies manage to be simultaneously more and less restrictive: half
the poems are prose poems (of five paragraphs each) that roam
across personal experience, human history (individual and
collective), and the natural world to unlock intellectual and
emotional connections; the other half are narrow stanzaless poems
that focus on a single word. These poems have a sinuous, almost
vaporous quality on the page-lines so thin that they serve as a
response to the prose that dominates the first half of the book.
Both types of poems in The Book of Bodies are essential to Steger's
understanding of the world. "Esteemed American readers, Ales Steger
is the real thing! He is the poet of inimitable gifts! He is one of
the best Eastern European poets of his generation! It is the truth:
Steger is a marvelous voice, one that takes some of the playfulness
of his Yugoslavian compatriots Vasko Popa and Tomaz Salamun to the
whole new level." - Ilya Kaminsky Slovenian writer Ales Steger has
published eight books of poetry, three novels, and two books of
essays. A Chevalier des Artes et Lettres in France and a member of
the Berlin Academy of Arts, he received the 1998 Veronika Prize for
the best Slovenian poetry book, the 1999 Petrarch Prize for young
European authors, the 2007 Rozanc Award for the best Slovenian book
of essays, and the 2016 International Bienek Prize. His work has
been translated into over 15 languages, including Chinese, German,
Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, and Spanish. Four of his books have
been published in English: The Book of Things, which won the 2011
Best Translated Book Award; Berlin; the novel Absolution; and Above
the Sky Beneath the Earth. He also has worked in the field of
visual arts (most recently with a large scale installation at the
International Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India), completed several
collaborations with musicians (Godalika, Uros Rojko, Peter N.
Gruber), and collaborated with Peter Zach on the film Beyond
Boundaries. Brian Henry is the author of eleven books of poetry,
most recently Permanent State. He co-edited the international
magazine Verse from 1995 to 2018 and established the Tomaz Salamun
Prize in 2015. His translation of Ales Steger's The Book of Things
appeared from BOA Editions in 2010 and won the Best Translated Book
Award. He also has translated Tomaz Salamun's Woods and Chalices
(Harcourt, 2008), Ales Debeljak's Smugglers (BOA, 2015), and Ales
Steger's Above the Sky Beneath the Earth (White Pine, 2019) and
Berlin (Counterpath, 2015). His work has appeared in The New
Yorker, The Paris Review, the New York Times, Poetry, The New
Republic, American Poetry Review, and many other places. His poetry
and translations have received numerous honors, including two NEA
fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation
fellowship, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the Cecil B. Hemley
Memorial Award, the George Bogin Memorial Award, and a Slovenian
Academy of Arts and Sciences grant.
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