Book record
Woods and Chalices
Tomaz Salamun
Translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry
Woods and Chalices, by Tomaz Salamun, is a Slovenian poetry collection from Slovenia, translated by Brian Henry, published by Harcourt in 2008. It is a Slovenian collection by Tomaž Šalamun where forest, ritual vessel, and ecstatic image form a strange devotional field. The chalice brings ceremony, the woods bring wilderness, and the poems live somewhere between altar and thicket. 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
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Language
- Slovenian
- Country
- Slovenia
- ISBN
- 9780151014255