Every Child Is Beautiful When Born by Esad Babačić and translated by Andrej Pleterski

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Every Child Is Beautiful When Born by Esad Babačić translated by Andrej Pleterski is published by Dalkey Archive Press. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781628973402E12.

Every Child Is Beautiful When Born, by Esad Babačić, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Andrej Pleterski, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2021. It is a Slovenian collection where innocence, social reality, and the blunt tenderness of a title meet. The book seems to begin from a sentence everyone wants to believe, then asks what the world does to that belief. 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.

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.