Book record
Above the Sky Beneath the Earth
Aleš Šteger
Translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry
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.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- White Pine Press
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Slovenia
- ISBN
- 9781945680328