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Title

A ballad for Metka Krašovec / Tomaž Šalamun ; translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins.

Author

Šalamun, Tomaž

Publication

Prague : Twisted Spoon Press, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biggins, Michael
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

155 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

The volume is characterized by often striking imagery and sexual turmoil.

Uniform Title

Balada za Metko Krašovec. English

Alternative Title

Balada za Metko Krašovec.

Subject

• Šalamun, Tomaž > Translations into English
• Šalamun, Tomaž, 1941-
• Šalamun, Tomaž
• 1900-1999
• Slovenian poetry > Translations into English
• Slovenian poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• Poems.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• "Night drenches the land ..." -- "Off with the crackpot's head ..." -- "Father, with your whetted ..." -- "O tribes! ..." -- "Shortcuts wash the ..." -- "Monsters in the gums ..." -- "I don't like black cherries ..." -- "Whips! Yolks! ..." -- "Sullen is the pose ..." -- "A tiny bug ..." -- "It was exactly noon ..." -- "A line-drawing deer ..." -- "On Sundays, when they ..." -- "A sword delineates ..." -- "A seed flying off ..." -- "I drink flour out ..." -- "Of all the drenched guests ..." -- "I throb in tiny ..." -- epitaph -- "A stream ..." -- "I eat rhubard and ..." -- "The stone, not the mind ..." -- "I remember a thorn ..." -- "The chalk in this picture ..." -- "They've blocked our ..." -- "The children's mouths ..." -- "Sorry, pine! ..." -- "A fly on the hairs ..." -- "Ladders are made ..." -- "The wings of a bee ..." -- west broadway -- gabrce -- 109 = 10 = 1 -- "Blue circles in the ..." -- "Blue pencils on a white ..." -- "Within the mountain ..." --^
• "Feathers are the feathers ..." -- "A city of light ..." -- "Supreme grace opens onto ..." -- "Counting is most terrible ..." -- snow man -- we peasants -- the dance -- san juan de la cruz and john dilg -- insects, birds -- "Endure ..." -- manhattan -- one, my arm -- a ballad for metka krasovec -- "A book of ..." -- to david -- mitla -- "To the nun ..." -- "I set a ..." -- "If it weren't for Descartes ..." -- "When I crawl ..." -- "With my tongue ..." -- god's straw -- andraz and tomaz salamun -- ragtime -- big deal -- telegram -- rites over charred remains -- bathtub army -- juice of oranges -- sayings of the world -- memory -- "I'm suffused ..." -- by jove, here we go again -- problems and mysticism -- the oeuvre and its brackets -- "Not just me ..." -- letters to my wife -- so what did i do in new york? -- i'll write you a sonnet -- "In hell they eat ..." -- "The people who ..." -- "Don't fool yourselves ..." -- doubting grandson -- prologue I -- prologue II -- a prayer -- god --^
• sixth of june -- poetry -- metka -- the man from galilee -- de rerum naturae -- "My grandma ..." -- riko adamic -- marko -- astonished eyes -- light not fed by light -- the boat -- jerusalem -- kami -- the tree -- a stroll in the zoo -- circles -- three poems for miriam -- bob! -- thirty-seven and you twenty-one -- why do you tremble, alejandro gallegos duval! -- to pavcek -- gaza -- my uncle the jockey and the butcher in zone a -- the koper-saratoga spring axis -- my bard and brother -- chez les contents -- small wonder that our old professor is now mayor of rome -- dear metka! -- liberty, blue folder -- la letter de mon pere, le pediatre -- grain -- the word and the truth.

ISBN

8086264122

OCLC

• 46372125
• SCSB-11254109

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library