Book record
Justice
Tomaž Šalamun
Translated from Slovenian by Michael Thomas Taren
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.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Black Ocean
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Slovenia
- ISBN
- 9781939568113