Tracing the Unspoken by Milan Selj and translated by Harvey Vincent

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Tracing the Unspoken by Milan Selj translated by Harvey Vincent is published by Midsummer Night’s Press, A. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781938334382E12.

Tracing the Unspoken, by Milan Selj, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Harvey Vincent, published by Midsummer Night’s Press, A in 2019. It is a Slovenian collection that makes silence, desire, and queer interiority feel tangible. Selj’s poems are valuable for the way they treat what cannot be said as a real texture, not merely an absence. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Slovenia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.