Above the Sky Beneath the Earth by Aleš Šteger and translated by Brian Henry

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Above the Sky Beneath the Earth by Aleš Šteger translated by Brian Henry is published by White Pine Press. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945680328E12.

Above the Sky Beneath the Earth, by Aleš Šteger, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Brian Henry, published by White Pine Press in 2019. It is a Slovenian collection organized by vertical imagination, moving between height, ground, and the hidden zones between them. Šteger’s poems often make the world feel freshly arranged, as if ordinary things had been placed inside a larger metaphysical architecture. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Slovenia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.