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Bilingual English and Slovenian poems examine the aftermath of post-Yugoslavia and the Balkan Wars, recalling vanished people and their country.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 4
Here
Home 7
Yesterday a House, Today Nothing 8
Bookstore 9
Bocce Court 10
Graceful Arch 11
Botanical Garden 12
Under the Chestnuts 13
Turkish Restaurant 14
Empty Handed
Smugglers 16
Paperboy 17
Advice to a Young Poet 18
The Living and the Dead 19
On the Deck 20
Arrest Warrant 21
The Castle Avenue With Trees 22
The Tree of Love 23
In the Inner Circle
The Balkan Bridge 25
The Woman Who Isn¿t There 26
Once Upon a Time in America 27
Jazz Club 28
Presidential Palace 29
Anchor 30
Statue of Anti-Fascist Activist 31
Failed Encounter 32
Mandatory Exercises
A Fool or a Baker 34
Tightrope Walker 35
When You Get Out of Prison 36
Old Factory 37
Essential Equipment 38
Insomniacs Society 39
Holidays 40
Moskito Bar 41
On the Wrong Side
Under Your Window, Lili Novy 43
The Robba Fountain 44
Under the Basket 45
Speedway Racetrack 46
Schoolboy¿s Blues 47
Festival Hall 48
Lightbulb 49
James Joyce Slept Here 50
About the Author 51
About the Translator 52
About the author
Aleš Debeljak has published eight books of poetry and twelve books of essays in Slovenian. His books have appeared in English, Japanese, German, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak, Finnish, Lithuanian, and Italian translation. Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems appeared from Persea Books in 2010. He has won the Preseren Foundation Prize, the Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Prize, the Chiqyu Poetry Prize in Japan, and the Jenko Prize. Debeljak teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
Brian Henry is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Brother No One (Salt Publishing, 2013). His translation of Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices appeared from Harcourt in 2008, and his translation of Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things appeared from BOA Editions in 2010 and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. He has received numerous awards for his poetry and translations, including fellowships from the NEA, the Howard Foundation, and the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Richmond, VA.
