This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of
verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one
of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek
(1904-1981).
The selections introduce the reader to the full spectrum of
Kocbek's long and distinguished career, starting with the pantheist
and expressionist nature poems of his early period and continuing
through the politically engaged poetry written during and after
World War II, to the philosophical and metaphysical meditations of
his fecund late period.
Readers will be struck by the originality and freshness of
Kocbek's sinewy and intense vision, rendered into fluid and
idiomatic English by two experienced translators. The Slovenian
texts appear on the facing pages.
"The opening stanza of "Moon with a Halo""
"The man beside me was killed.
He had a mother who bore him
and a father who made him toys,
he had a brother and a playful uncle
and a little girl with blond braids,
he had a wooden cart and a wooden horse,
a trunkful of colored dreams
and a brook where he used to fish."
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