Druids by Tomaz Salamun and translated by Sonja Kravanja

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Druids by Tomaz Salamun translated by Sonja Kravanja is published by Black Ocean. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193956825E12.

Druids, by Tomaz Salamun, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Sonja Kravanja, published by Black Ocean in 2019. It is a Slovenian collection by Tomaž Šalamun charged with ritual, forest, invocation, and ecstatic strangeness. The title gives the poems a ceremonial costume, but Šalamun usually turns costume into weather, trickery, and flight. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Slovenia. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

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