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A ballad for Metka Krašovec / Tomaž Šalamun ; translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins.
LIBRA - Special PG1919.29.A5 B3513 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Šalamun, Tomaž.
- Standardized Title:
- Balada za Metko Krašovec. English
- Language:
- English
- Slovenian
- Subjects (All):
- Slovenian poetry--20th century.
- Slovenian poetry.
- Slovenian poetry--Translations into English.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 155 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Prague : Twisted Spoon Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- The volume is characterized by often striking imagery and sexual turmoil.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Šalamun, Tomaž. Balada za Metko Krašovec. English. Ballad for Metka Krašovec.
- ISBN:
- 8086264122
- 9788086264127
- OCLC:
- 46372125
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