Book record
Gift of Delay
Maja Vidmar
Translated from Slovenian by Andrej Pleterski
Gift of Delay, by Maja Vidmar, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Andrej Pleterski, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2017. It is a Slovenian collection by Maja Vidmar where waiting, pause, and erotic or emotional tension become gifts rather than failures. Delay is rarely treated as generosity, which makes the title feel quietly radical. 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.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Slovenia
- ISBN
- 9781943150298