The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected Poems

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White Pine Press, 1997 - Education - 265 pages
A large and important collection by one of Eastern Europe's major contemporary poets.

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Contents

Introduction Christopher Merrill
15
from Poker 1966
23
from The Use of a Cloak 1968
34
from Pilgrimage for Maruška 1971
40
from White Ithaka 1972
47
from America 1973
63
from Arena 1973
77
from Falcon 1974
99
from Stars 1977
136
from Ballad for Metka Krašovec 1981
146
from Analogies of Light 1982
154
from Sonnet about Milk 1984
172
from Ljubljana Spring 1986
187
from Living Wound Living Juice 1988
213
from The Child and the Deer 1990
230
from Ambergris 1995
236

from Imre 1975
107
from Druids 1975
113
from Celebration 1976
120

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About the author (1997)

Tomaz Salamun was born on July 4, 1941 in Yugoslavia. He studied art history at the University of Ljubljana. He edited the literary magazine Perspektive and was briefly jailed on political charges. His first collection of poetry, Poker, was published in 1966. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 collections of poetry in Slovenian and English including The Four Questions of Melancholy, Feast, The Book for My Brother, Woods and Chalices, and On the Tracks of Wild Game. He won the Jenko Prize, Slovenia's Preseren and Mladost Prizes, and a Pushcart Prize. He died on December 27, 2014 at the age of 73.

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