Justice by Tomaž Šalamun and translated by Michael Thomas Taren

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Justice by Tomaž Šalamun translated by Michael Thomas Taren is published by Black Ocean. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939568113E12.

Justice, by Tomaž Šalamun, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Michael Thomas Taren, published by Black Ocean in 2015. It is a Slovenian collection by Tomaž Šalamun where the title’s moral weight meets his unruly surreal imagination. Justice is a large word, but in Šalamun’s hands it is likely to arrive sideways, comic, sacred, and strange. 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.

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