Book of Bodies by Aleš Šteger and translated by Brian Henry

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Book of Bodies 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 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945680526E12.

Book of Bodies, by Aleš Šteger, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Brian Henry, published by White Pine Press in 2022. It is a Slovenian collection that treats the body as archive, instrument, landscape, and problem. Šteger’s title promises plurality, and the poems invite a reader to think of embodiment as something written through by history, appetite, and attention. 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.

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