Without anesthesia by Aleš Debeljak and translated by Andrew Zawacki

This is poetry from Slovenia.

Without anesthesia by Aleš Debeljak translated by Andrew Zawacki is published by Persea Books. This is a Book originally written in Slovenian. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780892553655E12.

Without anesthesia, by Aleš Debeljak, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Andrew Zawacki, published by Persea Books in 2010. It is a Slovenian collection by Aleš Debeljak that refuses the numbness its title denies. The poems belong to a post-Yugoslav and late-modern sense of fracture, where memory has to be touched even when touching hurts. 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.

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