Book record
Soy Realidad
Tomaz Salamun
Translated from Slovenian by Michael Thomas Taren
Soy Realidad, by Tomaz Salamun, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Michael Thomas Taren, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2014. It is a Slovenian collection by Tomaž Šalamun whose Spanish title makes reality sound declared, performed, and unstable. The phrase 'I am reality' feels funny, grand, and impossible, which is exactly the territory Šalamun often wants. 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
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Slovenia
- ISBN
- 9781628970883