To read Tomaž Šalamun 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).

Feast: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Šalamun, Tomaž

Poetry

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

This newest collection of poems from Tomaž Šalamun is exuberant, ambitious, and full of surprises. Here the devil is encountered and understood-I see the devil's 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-I'm 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 o'clock 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.

The Book For My Brother

Ecco

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 heaven’s 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 Tomaž Salamun’s 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.

The Blue Tower

Mariner Books

The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun (Ecco's Modern European Poetry Series)

The Ecco Press

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Acquedotto 
The Air 
Angel's Method 
Are Angels Green? 
Birthdays 
Bitches Angels 
Black Madonna 
Cantina In Queretaro 
Charles D'orleans 
Christmas Poem 
Cold 
Dead Men 
Death's Window 
The Difference 
Drums 
Durer's Hare 
Eclipse: Ii 
Emptiness 
The Field Of Ptuj 
Folk Song 
History 
Homage To Hat & Uncle Guido & Eliot 
Home 
I Am A Mason 
I Am An Innocent Little Girl 
I Have A Horse 
I Read About Borges, Pasting Posters On Walls 
If You Grab A Chicken By Its Feet 
Imperialism Takes Off My Head 
Jonah 
Krakow 
Lapis Lazuli 
Light For Hamdija Demirovic 
Light-blue Pillow 
Little Robin 
Man With The Golden Eye 
Maria 
The Measure Of Time 
Nikola Tesla 
Nile 
The North 
One Day In The Dining Room I Took The Exact Measurements 
One Must Cook Well For One's Husband And Pigs 
Peace To The People Of This Earth 
People 
Pity 
Proverbs 
Rabbit Oaxaqueno 
Raw Sienna 
Raw Sienna 
Red Flowers 
Sand 
Shepherd 
Shoes 
Silently Flutter The Angels 
Sky Above Queretaro 
Sonnet About Milk 
Sunflower 
Tea 
To A Golem 
To Have A Friend 
To Him Who Was Prohibiting Me His Name 
To The Traveler 
The Tree Of Life 
Trout 
What Is What 
White 
Who Is Who 
The Window 
Words 
You're Taking The Piece Of Iron, Right? 
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun (English and Slovene Edition)

Ecco Pr

Poetry. Second Edition. POKER is Tomaz Salamun's first book of poetry, originally published in 1966 in Slovenia. This edition, vibrantly translated by award-winning poet Joshua Beckman in collaboration with the author, makes POKER available in its entirety in English. Poker was a finalist for the PEN American prize for poetry in translation. " ...the poetry of Tomaz Salamun is truly one of the wonders of the literary world"--John Bradley (in Rain Taxi)."...the wonderfully mystical, synaesthetic, and visionary poems of this book make a strange yet immediate sense"--Noah Eli Gordon (in The Poetry Project Newsletter).

Poker

Beckman, Joshua

Ugly Dukling Presse

Internationally acclaimed Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun wrote Blackboards in 1997, and two years later celebrated Slovenian artist Metka Krasovec painted "Trak," a captivating series of images spanning one long scroll of paper. Joined together, as poet John Yau writes in his introduction, "Salamun's melancholia and Krasovec's sense of longing set in motion... a dance of words and images, of words that evoke images we cannot picture, and images that define a world that cannot be contained in words."

Blackboards (Artist/Poet Collaboration)

Arts & Photography

Painting

Saturnalia Books

Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and lines, which they would borrow to insert in subsequent poems of their own. These rounds continued, until, in a process of call and response and unprecedented collaboration, 80 poems had been composed. Those 80 poems are collected in this book, penned by authors who represent some of the best and brightest the world of poetry has to offer. Transcending differences of generation, gender, language, and vision, these poets have invented an entirely new facet of the poet’s creative process.

Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book

Young, Dean

Merrill, Christopher

Bell, Marvin

Geher, Istvan Laszlo

Golubovich, Ksenia

Inguanez, Simone

United States

Trinity University Press

Kiss the Eyes of Peace: Selected Poems 1964–2014

MILKWEED EDITIONS *

A large and important collection by one of Eastern Europe's major contemporary poets.

Four Questions of Melancholy: New & Selected Poems (Terra Incognita Series)

History & Criticism

White Pine Press

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