Smugglers Contributor(s): Debeljak, Ales (Author), Henry, Brian (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1938160673 ISBN-13: 9781938160677 Publisher: BOA Editions OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary |
Dewey: 811.52 |
LCCN: 2014040127 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 112 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 sits behind files in the front. I know him from when 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. |