Tomaz Salamun

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This collection of poems from Toma alamun is exuberant, ambitious, and full of surprises. Here the devil is encountered and understood-I see the devils 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-Im watered by longing, knocking myhead 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 seaonly after five oclock in the afternoon to takea dose of sunlight like the ticking of the clock.At once daring and clear-voiced, The Book for My Brother is an extraordinary achievement.A collection of thrilling contradictions:Avant-Garde Vision: Where the sacred meets the profane, and the devil is understood not as a monster, but as a being who longs for innocence, as we do. A Global Voice: Journey through poems that juggle languages and continents with breathtaking speed, from the coast of Dalmatia to the streets of New York. Lyrical Intensity: Experience desire as both frustrating and exhilarating, in lines that capture the feeling of burning on a couch or knocking your head into the wall for pure longing. Philosophical Depth: Explore the tender and strange laws of childhood, where a dose of sunlight is measured out like the ticking of the clock.

The work of this eminent, still-wild spirit of Central Europe (Publishers Weekly) continues to electrify. In The Blue Tower, language is remade with tenderness and abandon: Rommel was kissing heavens dainty hands and yet / from his airplane above the Sahara my uncle / Rafko Perhauc still blew him to bits. There is an effervescence and a sense of freedom to Toma Salamuns poetry that has made him an inspiration to successive generations of American poets, a poetic bridge between old European roots and the American adventure (Associated Press). Trivial and monumental, beautiful and grotesque, healing, ferocious, mad: The Blue Tower is an essential volume. This essential volume is a masterclass in the avant-garde:Avant-Garde Verse: Where language is remade with tenderness and abandon, and seemingly random images connect with startling power. Historical Collage: Witness Field Marshal Rommel, Fra Angelico, and the poets uncle sharing the same surreal landscape. European Literature in Translation: A landmark work from a celebrated Slovenian poet, masterfully brought into English as a "poetic bridge between old European roots and the American adventure."Ferocious Beauty: A poetry that embraces the trivial and monumental, the beautiful and grotesque, creating an unforgettable and deeply human experience.

Inspired by Rimbaud and Ashbery, the Slovenian poet Toma alamun is now inspiring the younger generation of American poetsand Woods and Chalices will secure his place in the ranks of influential, experimental twenty-first-century writers. alamuns strengths are on display here: innocence and obscenity, closely allied; a great historical reach; and questions, commands, and statements of identity that challenge all norms and yet seem uncannily familiar and right Im molasses, dont forget that. Coat of Arms The wet sun stands on dark bricks. Through the kings mouth we see teeth. He sews lips. The owl moves its head. Shes tired, drowsy and black. She doesnt glow in gold like shed have to. This collection maps a landscape of surreal beauty and intellectual daring.Experimental Forms: Where declarations like "Im molasses" are treated with the same weight as profound historical observations. An Avant-Garde Legacy: Discover the work that continues the tradition of Rimbaud and Ashbery while forging a path for a new generation of American poets. Postmodern Vision: Experience a poetics where innocence and obscenity are closely allied, and every statement of identity challenges the norm. Masterful Translation: Presented in a clear and powerful English translation that captures the energy and complexity of the Slovenian original.

To read Toma alamun is to understand the delights of contemporary poetry. He is one of the major names in the international avant-garde. Irreverent, self-mythologizing, tragic, and visionary, he is a poet of immense range and cunning, able to encompass everything from Balkan wars and politics to the most intimate personal experiences. Feast, his latest collection in English, brings together both early and more recent work. "Realism, surrealism, song. Aphorisms, lyric, anti-lyric," as Jorie Graham wrote, are all to be found in these poems. Here is the most blasphemous of poets who is also a great religious poet. "Throw open a window, pull up a chair, and enjoy the imaginative feast" (Edward Hirsch).This essential collection showcases the powerful, disruptive games of a master poet:Avant-Garde Poetry: Discover the work of a leading voice in the international avant-garde, an heir to Rimbaud, the French Surrealists, and the New York Poets. Visionary Poetry: Experience a unique poetic voice that is at once tragic and whimsical, finding the infinite gift of the sublime in the shadow of historical tragedy. Slovenian Literature: Journey through a world where intimate personal experience collides with the politics of the Balkan wars, all molded by a fierce and playful Slovenianness. Experimental Style: A collection where form follows freedom, blending realism and surrealism, lyric and anti-lyric, in poems that derail logic to reveal a stranger reality.

T omaz alamun (Zagreb, 1941) es el primer poeta de Eslovenia que se aventur a intervenir en el canon literario establecido, parodiando la poesa predominante. Su poesa rompe con las formas poticas tradicionales y crea textos juguetones, irnicos, provocadores y blasfemos. Encontrarse con la poesa de T. S. significa establecer una relacin ntima con una creatividad que reta y sacude al lector. Los puntos de partida de su poesa son las crueles experiencias de guerra, violencia, muerte, destruccin, las escenas cotidianas del hombre amenazado, lo que se orienta hacia la visin del absurdo de todo lo existente.