Embers in the house of night : selected poems / of Edvard Kocbek ; translated from the Slovene by Sonja Kravanja ; with an introduction by Richard Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kocbek, Edvard.

Contributor:

Kravanja, Sonja.

Series:

Witter Bynner translation series

Language:

English

Slovenian

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe, N.M. : Lumen, [1999]

Summary:

Embers in the House of Night presents the first collection of poems by Edvard Kocbek, the dominant, most highly respected Slovenian poet of the 20th century, as translated by the premier translator from Slovenian into English, Sonja Kravanja. Serene yet profoundly serious, Kocbek writes lyrically of love, life, death, and womanhood; but he also muses on political suppression from the point of view of his 15 years under house arrest. "Microphone in the Wall, " a dramatic monologue addressed to the bugging device he lived with during those years, escapes the oppressive degradation intended to silence him by triumphing over the mute, servile taping device:

ISBN:

0930829425

OCLC:

53375265