Skin by Tone Škrjanec and translated by Ana Pepelnik, Matthew Rohrer

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Skin by Tone Škrjanec translated by Ana Pepelnik, Matthew Rohrer is published by Tavern Books. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935635345E12.

Skin, by Tone Škrjanec, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Ana Pepelnik, Matthew Rohrer, published by Tavern Books in 2014. It is a Slovenian collection by Tone Škrjanec where touch, surface, intimacy, and vulnerability meet in the body’s first border. Skin is both contact and defense, which gives the poems an immediate physical intelligence. 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.

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