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Opera Buffa (Paperback)
Tomaz Salamun; Translated by Matthew Moore
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R311
Discovery Miles 3 110
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Opera Buffa is Tomaz Salamun's last testament. It is a book rooted
in torn landscapes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Crafted
from place and power, these poems are fragments of collective
memory. "There are hands, inside. Concordance rises / There are no
foodstuffs. There's no branch." These are poems that examine what
is tender and terrible in the world, ranging from the extrajudicial
civil massacres of partisans during and after the Second World War,
to the prejudicial violence carried out in twenty-first-century
Europe against people forced to migrate from the Middle East, North
Africa, and India. Opera Buffa witnesses anarchical plutocracy,
climate catastrophe, and so much more. "Do you feel the footsteps?/
Do you feel the approach?" This is Opera Buffa.
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Tomaz (Paperback)
Tomaz Salamun, Joshua Beckman
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R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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Tomaz is an extended poem assembled from assembled by Joshua
Beckman from his recorded conversations with one of the
foundational figures of the European avant-garde, Tomaz Salamun.
This book includes photographs and translated original poems
throughout, some of which are presented for the first time in
English, and it covers the first forty years of his life in his own
words. With careful articulation and generosity of attention,
Joshua Beckman becomes a conduit for the language of Salamun,
assembling an autobiographic poem in a way that only a poet,
translator, and friend could. .
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Oubliette (Paperback)
Peter Richards; Introduction by Tomaz Salamun
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R238
Discovery Miles 2 380
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Poetry. In the introduction to OUBLIETTE, Peter Richards's first
book of poetry, Tomaz Salamun writes, It is inscrutable how Peter
Richards produces this religious magma and bathes himself and us in
it. How he restores internal time to the work of art. I don't know
and I don't want to tell you about it. Get wet by yourself. Dara
Wier says about OUBLIETTE, I love to read a book approaching
tragedy without recourse to literal analogy. Peter Richards' poems
hesitate to simplify and they get close to knowing, thus they
nearly push me over the edge, then they say, don't go, not yet.
They electrify the mortal story that goes - there's only one way
in, one way out of this world. And then these tender poems say,
let's go everywhere, maybe there's another world.
Poetry. Tomaz Salamun is perhaps the most popular and prolific poet
in Central Europe today. Thanks to the translation of his work he
has also been widely acclaimed abroad. To date he has had four
collections of selected poetry published in English. A BALLAD FOR
METKA KRASOVEC, originally published in the 1980s by Harcourt, at
the mid-point of Salamun's career, is considered by the author to
be one of his finest works. The volume is characterized by often
striking imagery and sexual turmoil. It is the first complete
single volume of his to appear in English translation. The
translator is Michael Biggins, who is a Slavic and East European
Studies librarian at the University of Washington Libraries in
Seattle. SPD also carries Salamun's FOUR QUESTIONS OF MELANCHOLY
(White Pine).
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Row (Paperback)
Tomaz Salamun
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R309
R259
Discovery Miles 2 590
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A new collection by the Slovenian poet, Tomaz Salamun, is always
eagerly awaited, and 'Row' shows this popular and distinctive poet
at the height of his powers. Translated by the American poet Joshua
Beckman and the author, and presented as a bilingual edition (with
Slovenian and English texts on facing pages), these are
instinctive, sensory poems, poems of great power and surprise; each
phrase, no matter how unexpected or surreal, has a deliberate force
and a convincing relevance. Salamun is a mysterious and enigmatic
poet - he takes risks, and with wit and wonder, he renews our
familiar world again and again. This volume, which opens with a
short preface by the translator, Joshua Beckman, forms part of the
'Arc Translations' series, edited by Dr. Jean Boase-Beier of the
University of East Anglia (UK).
This newest collection of poems from Tomaž Salamun is exuberant,
ambitious, and full of surprises. Here the devil is encountered and
understood-
"I see the devil's head, people, I see his whole body . . . "
"he longs for innocence, as we do. "
"Here the poet juggles many tones, languages, and countries. Desire
is evoked as both frustrating and exhilarating-"
"I'm watered by longing, knocking my"
"head into the wall, on the ground, or I burn, burn, "
"folded up on the couch."
"And memory comes back to remind us of the laws and experiences of
childhood-"
"Once again you are let loose in the sea"
"only after five o'clock in the afternoon to take"
"a dose of sunlight like the ticking of the clock."
At once daring and clear-voiced, The Book for My Brother is an
extraordinary achievement.
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