The city and the child / Aleš Debeljak ; translated by Christopher Merrill and the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Debeljak, Aleš, 1961-2016.

Contributor:

Merrill, Christopher.

Series:

Terra incognita (Fredonia, N.Y.) ; vol. 5.

Terra incognita ; 5

Standardized Title:

Mesto in otrok. English

Language:

English

Slovenian

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo, NY : White Pine Press, 1999.

Summary:

Debeljak's previous collection "Anxious Moments was a tremendous critical success. Yet between 1990 and 1995, commensurate with Yugoslavia's slide into war, Debeljak wrote no poems. It took the birth of his daughter, his new muse, to bring forth this collection of irregular sonnets. "The Child and the City is a meditation on the conjunction of war and fatherhood, and national literary tradition.

Contents:

Grand Hotel Europa

Faces in Front of the Wall 13

Weather Forecast 14

Grand Hotel Europa 15

Grapes of Mercy 16

Pastoral 17

Mercenaries 18

Migrations

Cosmopolis 21

Migrations 22

The City and the Child 23

Metamorphosis of Grass 24

The Imperfect Passion of a Word 25

The Beauty of Failure 26

Manufacturing Dust

Hunter's Initiation 29

Bosnian Elegy 30

Manufacturing Dust 31

Across the River, to the East 32

The Aesthetics of Dusk 33

The Lord of Tears 34

Second Baptism

Testament of Defeat 37

Source of Oxygen 38

Before the Storm 39

Halfway to the Foreign Legion 40

To the Poets Exiled in Amsterdam 41

Second Baptism 42

Interpretation of Love

Prayer from Pontus 45

Interpretation of Love 46

Light Above the Peninsula 47

Night Bride 48

Traveling to New York 49

Woman's Shadow 50

Young muse

Young Muse 53

Boundless Room 54

Church Bells at Midnight 55

Gratitude 56

Invocation by a Small Bed 57

Newborn Ode 58

Homecoming

Angel on the Lake Shore 61

The Last Cigarette 62

At the Epicenter 63

Bridge 64

Boundaries of Language 65

Homecoming 66.

ISBN:

1877727997

OCLC:

42072252