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Woods and Chalicesby Tomaz Salamun
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Inspired by Rimbaud and Ashbery, the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun is now inspiring the younger generation of American poetsand Woods and Chalices will secure his place in the ranks of influential, experimental twenty-first-century writers. Šalamuns 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 uncannily familiar and right “Im molasses, dont forget that.” Coat of Arms The wet sun stands on dark bricks. Through the kings mouth we see teeth. He sews lips. The owl moves its head. Shes tired, drowsy and black. She doesnt glow in gold like shed have to. Review:"Slovenian poet Salamun (The Book for My Brother) has become an influence, and a mentor, for plenty of young American poets. One reason lies in Salamun's postmodern mix of giddy and global with the earthy retrospect he takes from his homeland. Salamun (now a visiting professor, with associate professor Henry, at the University of Richmond) makes his new collection a whirlwind tour of sites and moods, naming locales from Persia to the Grajena River to the Pacific coast and riffing on the work of other poets from Walt Whitman to Mark Levine. Unrhymed sonnets and choppy stanzaic poems shuffle and deal among postsurrealist images, violent memories, sexual dreams: 'Crystals are bedsprings, they have noddles/ in their robberies,' the poet decides in 'Odessa,' while 'In the Tent Among Grapes' begins: 'Don't sneak me onto mountains, chicken. Don't verify/ your neighbor. You creep on my vaults.' The next-to-last, and most coherent, piece, 'New York — Montreal Train, 24 January 1974,' seems to recall a visionary experience from the poet's own life: this record of a brush with bizarre immanence ('as if someone were dragging me/ through milk') may help readers new to Salamun trust the disorientation to be found in much of his work." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:PRAISE FOR TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN "[Šalamun] remains a great postwar central European poet, which means that his work is a battle to give equal power to the cheeky voice and the soaring voice, avoiding always the obvious and the prosaically meaningful, making sure that nothing can make poetry happen, and that poetry in turn can become more important than history or politics or mere philosophy."Colm Tóibín, The Guardian (London)
"All of [Šalamun's work] has provocation and imaginative intensity and aesthetic risk."Robert Hass Review:"Salamun has become an influence, and a mentor, for plenty of young American poets. One reason lies in Salamuns postmodern mix of giddy and global with the earthy retrospect he takes from his homeland...[He] makes his new collection a whirlwind tour of sites and moods..." Review:"[T]heres a music being played here--distinct rhythms, a consistently dream-like quality, a contrapuntal balance of acerbic humor and amorphous dread...you float along the poets twisting strem, not knowing or caring where you are, where youre going or where youve been." About the AuthorTOMAŽ ŠALAMUN has published more than thirty books of poetry, which have been translated into almost every European language. He will be a distinguished-writer-in-residence at the University of Richmond in the spring of 2008. Table of ContentsCONTENTS
The Lucid Slovenian Green 1 Mills 2 In the Tongues of Bells 3 The Clouds of Tiepolo 4 The Edge From Where We Measure 5 Ferryman 6 Tiepolo Again 7 In the Tent Among Grapes 8 Mother and Death 9 Along Grajena River 10 The Dead 11 Ancestor 12 Academy of American Poets 13 Enamel 14 Vases 15 Pessoa Scolding Whitman 16 The Pacific Again 19 Libero 20 In New York, After Diplomatic Training 21 Boiling Throats 23 The Catalans, the Moors 24 Sand and Spleen Were Left in Your Nose 25 Arm Out and Point the Way 26 Fallow Land and the Fates 27 Perfection 28 Avenues 29 Dislocated, Circulating 30 Car 31 Odessa 32 Offspring and the Baptism 33 Washington 35 The King Likes the Sun 36 You Are at Home Here 37 Bites and Happiness 38 Baruzza 39 The Linden Tree 40 Holy Science 42 We Lived in a Hut, Shivering With Cold 44 At low tide . . . 45 Blue Wave 46 Colombia 47 And on the Slopes of La Paz 48 Coat of Arms 50 Fiery Chariot 51 Shifting the Dedications 52 Washing in Gold 53 The Woods White Arm 54 The Kid from Harkov 55 Porta di Leone 56 Paleochora 57 Persia 58 In the Walk of Tiny Dews 59 Olive Trees 60 Mornings 61 It Blunts 62 Marasca 63 Scarlet Toga 64 Shepherd, You Are Just Learning 66 The Cube that Spins and Sizzles, Circumscribes the Circle 67 The Man I Respected 68 The Hidden Wheel of Catherine of Siena 69 White Cones 70 Horses and Millet 71 Henry of Toulouse, Is That You? 72 New York–Montreal Train, 24 January, 1974 73 The West 76 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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