A selection of new and previously published poems from a key voice in the new generation of central European post-Communist poets.
Aleš Šteger’s poetry is multi-layered and technically versatile, ingenious and inventive, adventurous and playful yet serious in intention, and above all, incessantly curious in its investigations which the reader is invited to share – and he loves to ambush the reader with the unexpected.
Notable for its moral engagement, his poetry is acutely precise in its observation and concentration, and could also be described – in very broad terms – as surrealist. His influences are mainly European, most notably the Serbian master poet Vasko Popa and the French surrealist Francis Ponge, whose mantle he could be said to have taken on in prose poems which describe everyday objects in minute terms, only to explode in the imagination through what he perceives in them.
About the author
Poet, translator, and editor Brian Henry is Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Richmond, Virginia. His collections of poetry include Astronaut (2000), American Incident (2002), Graft (2003), Quarantine (2006), In the Unlikely Event of a Water (2007), The Stripping Point (2007), Wings Without Birds (2010), Lessness (2011), Doppelgänger (2011). Brother No One (2013), Static & Snow (2015) and Permanent State (2020). An advocate for Slovenian poets and poetry, he has translated Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices (2008) and Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things (2010), Above the Sky Beneath the Earth (2019), The Book of Bodies (2022) and Burning Tongues: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2022). His translation of Aleš Šteger’s The Book of Things won both the Best Translated Book Award and AATSEEL’s Best Literary Translation into English Award, and his translation of Aleš Debeljak’s Smugglers received a 2011 Howard Foundation fellowship. He also received translation grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for books by Šteger, one for his collection of lyric essays, Berlin, the other for Burning Tongues. He is currently editing and translating a final comprehensive volume of Selected Poems by Tomaž Šalamun for Milkweed Editions. He co-edited the magazine Verse with Andrew Zawacki from 1995 to 2018. His honours and awards include a Distinguished Educator Award, a Cecil B. Hemley Memorial Award, an Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and a George Bogin Memorial Award.
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