On the tracks of wild game by Tomaž Šalamun and translated by Sonja Kravanja

This is poetry from Slovenia.

On the tracks of wild game by Tomaž Šalamun translated by Sonja Kravanja is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933254951E12.

On the tracks of wild game, by Tomaž Šalamun, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Sonja Kravanja, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2012. It is a Slovenian collection by Tomaž Šalamun where pursuit, animal energy, and poetic misdirection are part of the chase. The title makes reading feel like tracking, but Šalamun is the kind of poet who keeps changing the animal’s footprints. 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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