Book record
Tracing the Unspoken
Milan Selj
Translated from Slovenian by Harvey Vincent
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.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Midsummer Night's Press, A
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Slovenia
- ISBN
- 9781938334382