Book record
The Golden Boat
Srecko Kosovel
Translated from Slovenian by Bert Pribac
The Golden Boat, by Srecko Kosovel, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Bert Pribac, published by Salt in 2011. It is a Slovenian collection by Srečko Kosovel where modernism, voyage, and luminous image move together. The golden boat suggests both escape and offering, a vessel bright enough to be mythic and fragile enough to be human. 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
- 2011
- Publisher
- Salt
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Slovenia
- ISBN
- 9781844718559