Book record
The master of insomnia
Boris A. Novak
Translated from Slovenian by Michael Biggins
The master of insomnia, by Boris A. Novak, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Michael Biggins, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2012. It is a Slovenian collection by Boris A. Novak where sleeplessness, intellect, and night-thought shape poetic attention. Insomnia makes the mind both captive and excessive, and the title gives that condition a dark authority. 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
- 2012
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Slovenia
- ISBN
- 9781564787835