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Books by Tomaz Salamun
  | | On the Tracks of Wild Game(1st Edition) (Eastern European Poets Series) by Tomaz Salamun, Sonja Kravanja, Toma Alamun Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 2012 by Ugly Duckling Presse ISBN-13: 978-1-933254-95-1, ISBN: 1-933254-95-5 "Poetry. Translated from the Slovenian by Sonja Kravanja. Tomaž Šalamun wrote the poems collected in ON THE TRACKS OF WILD GAME [Po sledeh divjadi] in a time of personal crisis during the politically repressive years of the 1970s. It was with this book, which saw its first publication in 1979, that Šalamun made a complete transformation in moving from art-making to poetry."Tomaž Šalamun's poems never cease to show me what language can be ..." |
 | | The Blue Tower(1st Edition) by Tomaz Salamun, Michael Biggins Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-547-36476-6, ISBN: 0-547-36476-8 "The work of this “eminent, still-wild spirit of Central Europe” (Publishers Weekly) continues to electrify. In The Blue Tower, language is remade with tenderness and abandon: “Rommel was kissing heaven’s dainty hands and yet / from his airplane above the Sahara my uncle / Rafko Perhauc still blew him to bits.” There is an effervescence and a sense of freedom to Tomaž Salamun’s poetry that has made him an inspiration to successive genera ..." |
 | | Row (Arc Translation S.) by Tomaz Salamun, Joshua Beckman, Georg Trakl, Joshua Salamun Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2006 by Arc Publications Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-904614-09-8, ISBN: 1-904614-09-4 "A new collection by the Slovenian poet, Tomaz Salamun, is always eagerly awaited, and 'Row' shows this popular and distinctive poet at the height of his powers. Translated by the American poet Joshua Beckman and the author, and presented as a bilingual edition (with Slovenian and English texts on facing pages), these are instinctive, sensory poems, poems of great power and surprise; each phrase, no matter how unexpected or surreal, has ..." |
 | | The Book For My Brother Pa(1st Edition) by Tomaz Salamun Paperback, 114 Pages, Published 2006 by Harvest ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603205-6, ISBN: 0-15-603205-8 "This newest collection of poems from Tomaž Šalamun is exuberant, ambitious, and full of surprises. Here the devil is encountered and understood-I see the devil's head, people, I see his whole body . . . he longs for innocence, as we do. Here the poet juggles many tones, languages, and countries. Desire is evoked as both frustrating and exhilarating-I'm watered by longing, knocking myhead into the wall, on the ground, or I burn, burn,fol ..." |
 | | Blackboards (Poet/Artist Collaboration Series) by Tomaz Salamun, Michael Biggins, John Yau, Metka Krasovec Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2004 by Saturnalia ISBN-13: 978-0-9754990-0-9, ISBN: 0-9754990-0-9 "Internationally acclaimed Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun wrote Blackboards in 1997, and two years later celebrated Slovenian artist Metka Krasovec painted "Trak," a captivating series of images spanning one long scroll of paper. Joined together, as poet John Yau writes in his introduction, "Salamun's melancholia and Krasovec's sense of longing set in motion... a dance of words and images, of words that evoke images we cannot picture, and ..." |
 | | Woods and Chalices(1st Edition) by Henry Tomaz Salamun, Tomaž Šalamun, Brian Henry Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101425-5, ISBN: 0-15-101425-6 "Inspired by Rimbaud and Ashbery, the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun is now inspiring the younger generation of American poets—and Woods and Chalices will secure his place in the ranks of influential, experimental twenty-first-century writers. Šalamun’s strengths are on display here: innocence and obscenity, closely allied; a great historical reach; and questions, commands, and statements of identity that challenge all norms and yet seem u ..." |
 | | Feast(1st Edition) Poems by Tomaz Salamun, Charles Simic, Joshua Beckman, Roy Strong Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2000 by Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-15-100560-4, ISBN: 0-15-100560-5 "To read Tomaž Šalamun is to understand the delights of contemporary poetry. He is one of the major names in the international avant-garde. Irreverent, self-mythologizing, tragic, and visionary, he is a poet of immense range and cunning, able to encompass everything from Balkan wars and politics to the most intimate personal experiences. Feast, his latest collection in English, brings together both early and more recent work. "Realism, s ..." |
 | | Four Questions of Melancholy(1st Edition) New & Selected Poems (Terra Incognita Series) by Tomaz Salamun, Christopher Merrill, Michael Biggins Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1996 by White Pine Press ISBN-13: 978-1-877727-57-3, ISBN: 1-877727-57-1 "A graduate in art history from the University of Ljubljana, he worked as a conceptual artist before devoting his energy to poetry. Widely recognized as one of the leading Central European poets, he is the author of twenty-five collections of poetry, and his books have been ... Married to the painter Metka Krasovec, he is the father of two grown children, Ana and David. Salamun, who is Cultural Attache for the Republic of Slovenia, ..." |
 | | Oubliette(1st Edition) by Peter Richards M.D, Tomaz Salamun Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2004 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9703672-2-8, ISBN: 0-9703672-2-8 "In his introduction to this, Richards’ debut collection, Tomaz Salamun writes "It is inscrutable how Peter Richards produces this religious magma and bathes himself and us in it. How he restores internal time to the work of art."" |
 | | The Literary Review(1st Edition) The Worst Team Money Could Buy by R.A. Allen, Minna Proctor, James Richardson, Mariana Toscas, Benjamin Paloff, Eamon Grennan, Scott Withiam, Tomaz Salamun, Lina Meruane, M. Eileen Cronin, Kurt Andersen, Cole Swenson, Tom Sleigh, Victor Lavalle, The Literary Review, Renee Ashley, Jason Brown, Ann Beman, Jeff Bursey, Jena Salon, David Daniel, Simen Johan, Ruth Curry, Weston Cutter, Jim Daniels, Kristina Darling, Lawrence-Minh Davis, Mathew Gagnon, Jody Handerson, Cassie Hay, John King, Andrew Mckay, Anne Mcpeak, M. A. Melnick, Peter Murphy, Doug Ramspeck, J. D. Reid, Thomas Reiter, Eli Rosenberg, Norman Simon, Michael Taren, Padma Thornlyre, Mike Valente, Bernadette Walker, Phyllis Wat, Marion Wyce Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2010 by Fairleigh Dickinson University ISBN-13: 978-0-9841607-6-1, ISBN: 0-9841607-6-0 "Read remarkable fiction, poetry, translations, and serious conversation about literature in the Summer 2010 issue of The Literary Review, an international quarterly publishing astonishing writing since the middle of the last century. The Worst Team Money Could Buy features dreadful tales of hapless efforts, vexed ambitions, and impossible odds. Prosthetic legs, hot wings, spontaneous combustion, doppelgangers, spam, incest, the economy, ..." |
 | | Justice(1st Edition) by Tomaz Salamun, Michael Thomas Taren Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2015 by Black Ocean ISBN-13: 978-1-939568-11-3, ISBN: 1-939568-11-0 "Poetry. Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Thomas Taren. Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun (1941-2014) is hailed as one of the most prominent poets of his generation, renowned for his impact on the Eastern European avant-garde movement. He authored over forty collections of poetry in Slovenian and English, experimenting with surrealism, polyphony, and absurdism. In this collection, which he was preparing before his recent death, he sho ..." |
 | | There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair by Tomaz Salamun, Thomas Kane Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2009 by Counterpath Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933996-12-7, ISBN: 1-933996-12-9 "Poetry. Poems born in "a time of abrupt needs," this collection catalogs those individual and imperative fancies that, in the cosmos of Tomaz Salamun, eternity aims to replace: A genealogy of dressmakers and songbirds. A biography that locates the poetic "I" as, at once, a primordial being and a tamer of beasts, a monster and a guardian angel. With uncanny and sometimes harrowing grace, Salamun plumbs every reach of the imagination in s ..." |
 | | The Book for My Brother (Cancelled) by Tomaz Salamun 128 Pages, Published 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Hmh) ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101144-5, ISBN: 0-15-101144-3 |
 | | Poker by Tomaz Salamun, Trans Joshua Beckman Paperback, 74 Pages, Published 2004 by Ugly Dukling Presse ISBN-13: 978-0-9727684-2-9, ISBN: 0-9727684-2-4 "Poetry. Second Edition. POKER is Tomaz Salamun's first book of poetry, originally published in 1966 in Slovenia. This edition, vibrantly translated by award-winning poet Joshua Beckman in collaboration with the author, makes POKER available in its entirety in English. Poker was a finalist for the PEN American prize for poetry in translation. " ...the poetry of Tomaz Salamun is truly one of the wonders of the literary world"--John Bradle ..." |
 | | The Shepherd, the Hunter Selected Poems. Translated, with an Introduction By Sonja Kravanja by Tomaz Salamun, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Sonja Kravanja Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 1992 by Pedernal ISBN-13: 978-1-881613-02-2, ISBN: 1-881613-02-X |
 | | Soy Realidad Poems (Slovenian Literature Series) by Tomaz Salamun, Michael Thomas Taren, Toma Alamun, Toma Alamun Paperback, 105 Pages, Published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-088-3, ISBN: 1-62897-088-X "At last available in English translation, "Soy Realidad" is Tomaž Šalamun's twenty-first collection of poetry, originally published in 1985. Showing a maturing poet at home as a citizen of the world, "Soy Realidad" ranges far from Šalamun's Slovenia, combining his native language with Latin, French, English, and Spanish, as well as evoking such places as Belize, the Sierra Nevada, and Mexico City. From sex to God, from landscape to lite ..." |
 | | Andes(1st Edition) by Tomaz Salamun Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2016 by Black Ocean ISBN-13: 978-1-939568-18-2, ISBN: 1-939568-18-8 "Poetry. Translated by Jeffrey Young and Katarina Vladimirov Young. The penultimate work from renowned Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun, ANDES was written less than three years before his death in 2014. Together, the poems of ANDES are an exceptional and unusual journey that confronts both life and death across diverse continents, peoples, cities, languages, and histories. In his eulogy for Šalamun, the Slovene poet Miklavž Komelj said: "Šal ..." |
 | | Druids(1st Edition) by Tomaz Salamun, Sonja Kravanja Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2019 by Black Ocean ISBN-13: 978-1-939568-25-0, ISBN: 1-939568-25-0 "Poetry. Translated by Sonja Kravanja. Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun (1941-2014) is hailed as one of the most prominent poets of his generation, renowned for his impact on the Eastern European avant-garde movement. He authored over forty collections of poetry in Slovenian and English, and this collection exemplifies the best of what he is known for in its experiments with surrealism, polyphony, and absurdism. It's the world we know made c ..." |
 | | Feast by Tomaz Salamun 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-34368-9, ISBN: 0-544-34368-9 "Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777. www.harcourt.com Translated from the Slovenian by Joshua Beckman, Michael Biggins, MarkoJakse, Phillis Levin, W. Martin, Christopher Merrill, Andrew Wachtel, and the author. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Salamun, Tom ..." |
 | | Woods and Chalices by Tomaz Salamun 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-34366-5, ISBN: 0-544-34366-2 "Jure Detela was an athlete. All night we sat on the bench in Zvezda Park, I guarded him and convinced him not to go and clip the bears' fence. This was wrestling with an angel. His eyes poured out of him. It was rustling when the morning rose." |
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