The Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected PoemsA large and important collection by one of Eastern Europe's major contemporary poets. |
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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