Research Catalog

Title

Woods and chalices / Tomaž Šalamun ; translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry and the author.

Author

Šalamun, Tomaž

Publication

Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2008.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Henry, Brian, 1972-
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

77 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"All of [his work] has provocation and imaginative intensity and aesthetic risk."--Robert Hass. "[Salamun] is, as a poet, supremely clever, and then he is also intelligent enough to dampen this cleverness in the name of poetry when he feels like it. His work is elegant and ironic and often surreal and lined with dark laughter . . . He remains a great postwar central European poet, which means that his work is a battle to give equal power to the cheeky voice and the soaring voice, avoiding always the obvious and the prosaically meaningful, making sure that nothing can make poetry happen, and that poetry in turn can become more important than history or politics or mere philosophy."--Colm Toibin, The Guardian (London). "The most celebrated Slovenian poet of his generation . . . his poems manifest a wry, deprecative humor, alternately acerbic and playful; a gift for remarkable images and detail, both surreal and quotidian; and an acute sensitivity to the astounding variety of the world and of history."--Boston Review.

Uniform Title

Gozd in kelihi. English

Alternative Title

Gozd in kelihi.

Subject

Šalamun, Tomaž > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Translations
• Poésie.

Note

• Translation of Gozd in kelihi.
• First published in Slovenia by Cankarjeva zalozba, 2000.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The lucid Slovenian green -- Mills -- In the tongues of bells -- The clouds of Tiepolo -- The edge from where we measure -- Ferryman -- Tiepolo again -- In the tent among grapes -- Mother and death -- Along Grajena river -- The dead -- Ancestor -- Academy of American poets -- Enamel -- Vases -- Pessoa scolding Whitman -- The Pacific again -- Libero -- In New York, after diplomatic training -- Boiling throats -- The Catalans, the Moors -- Sand and spleen were left in your nose -- Arm out and point the way -- Fallow land and the fates -- Perfection -- Avenues -- Dislocated, circulating -- Car -- Odessa -- Offspring and the baptism -- Washington -- The king likes the sun -- You are at home here -- Bites and happiness -- Baruzza -- The linden tree -- Holy science -- We lived in a hut, shivering with cold -- at low tide . . . -- Blue wave -- Colombia -- And on the slopes of La Paz -- Coat of arms -- Fiery chariot -- Shifting the dedications -- Washing in gold -- The woods white arm -- The kid from Harkov -- Porta Di Leone -- Paleochora -- Persia -- In the walk of tiny dews -- Olive trees -- Mornings -- It blunts -- Marasca -- Scarlet toga -- Shepherd, you are just learning -- The cube that spins and sizzles, circumscribes the circle -- The man i respected -- The hidden wheel of Catherine of Siena -- White cones -- Horses and millet -- Henry of Toulouse, is that you? -- New York-Montreal train, 24 January, 1974 -- The West.

ISBN

9780151014255

LCCN

^^2007037468

OCLC

171614230

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library