Master of Insomnia (e-bok)
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Utgivningsdatum
2012-09-18
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Deep Vellum Publishing
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9781564788191

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Master of Insomnia (e-bok)

Master of Insomnia E-bok

Selected Poems

av Boris A Novak
E-bok (EPUB - DRM), Engelska, 2012-09-18
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A collision between contemporary poetics and the Renaissance lyric, between aestheticism and political engagement, The Master of Insomnia is a collection of Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak's verse from the last fifteen years, including numerous poems never before available in English. In these sensitive translations, Novak stands revealed as both innovator and observer; as critic Ales Debeljak has written: "e;The poet's power in bearing witness to Sarajevo and Dalmatia, to his childhood room and his retired father, to the indifferent passage of time and the desperate pain of loss, confirms the melancholy clairvoyance of Walter Benjamin, who stated that what is essential hides in the marginal, negligent, and hardly observed details. Whoever strives to see the "e;big picture"e; will inevitably overlook the essential . . . [Novak's] wide-open eyes must watch over both the beauty of this life and the horror of its destruction."e;
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  • Poems

    Poems

    Milan Jesih, Alenka Jovanovski, Boris A Novak

    Traditional Slovenian literary criticism has always associated the name of Milan Jesih with the phrase poetic modernism. Viewed strictly from the perspective of literary science, this claim is justified, for Jesih's first poetry collection, &quote...

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  • Samost / Aloneness / Alleinsein

    Samost / Aloneness / Alleinsein

    Svetlana Makarovic, Lenart Zajc, Boris A Novak

    Svetlana Makarovic draws extensively on folklore, especially on balladic poetry. She developed this resource in a distinctly individual fashion by faithfully maintaining the rhythm and lexis of the traditional ballad; her heartbreaking ballads spe...

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