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Woods and Chalices
by Tomaz Salamun

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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. Salamun's strengths are here on display: 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—"I'm molasses, don't forget that" (from "The Catalans, the Moors"). 

 

Washington

No one rides on

the crest. No one stops Rembrandt.

Trousers worn down on parmesan.

On the crests of the hooved.

Dinosaurs are made of rubber,

more precisely, of green

water-soluble chewing

gum and that molasses

a la watered-down sherry.

You are drunk.

Of course I reserved two beds.

Of course I will force the door, what do I care.

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:

"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..."
 
(Publishers Weekly, Apr 21 2008 )

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."
(Booklist, Apr 15 2008 )

Synopsis:

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 uncannily familiar and right— “I’m molasses, don’t forget that.”
 
Coat of Arms

The wet sun stands on dark bricks.
Through the king’s mouth we see teeth.
He sews lips. The owl moves its head.
She’s tired, drowsy and black.
She doesn’t glow in gold like she’d have to.

About the Author

TOMAŽ 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 Contents

CONTENTS

 

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 Wood’s 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


Product Details

ISBN:
9780151014255
Author:
Salamun, Tomaz
Publisher:
Harcourt
Translator:
Henry
Translator:
Henry, Brian
Subject:
Single Author / General
Subject:
'Salamun, Toma'z
Subject:
General
Publication Date:
April 2008
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
77
Dimensions:
8.22x5.98x.52 in. .48 lbs.