Look back, look ahead by Srečko Kosovel and translated by Ana Jelnikar, Barbara Siegel Carlson

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Look back, look ahead by Srečko Kosovel translated by Ana Jelnikar, Barbara Siegel Carlson is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933254548E12.

Look back, look ahead, by Srečko Kosovel, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Ana Jelnikar, Barbara Siegel Carlson, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010. It is a Slovenian collection by Srečko Kosovel where modernist urgency, memory, and futurity look in opposite directions at once. The title feels like a hinge, asking the reader to stand between inheritance and invention. 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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