Book record
smugglers
Aleš Debeljak
Translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry
Smugglers, by Aleš Debeljak, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Brian Henry, published by BOA Editions, Limited in 2015. It is a Slovenian collection by Aleš Debeljak where border-crossing, memory, and cultural passage shape the lyric field. Smuggling is an apt metaphor for translation itself: something carried across under pressure, risk, and desire. 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
- BOA Editions
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Yugoslavia
- ISBN
- 9781938160677