Böcker av Toma alamun

Book is a collection of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated postwar Europe poets, who is known as a cultural icon who protested Communism The author’s work introduces a singular perspective on the liberatory politics and histories of Slovenia, the former Yugoslavia and EuropeThe book’s translator is widely connected across the literary, translation and poetry communities The author’s work has been widely celebrated and praised by the Paris Review, the Guardian and Publishers WeeklyThe book is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive English-language retrospective of the poet’s long career and will attract media and readers interested in examining poetry as protest and the histories of Eastern Europe

Assembled using recorded conversations with the Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun, this book-length poem by Joshua Beckman spans the first forty years of Salamun's life in his own words. -- Tomaz Salamun

Opera Buffa is Tomaž Šalamun¿s last testament. It is a book rooted in torn landscapes of Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Crafted from place and power, these poems are fragments of collective memory. ¿There are hands, inside. Concordance rises / There are no foodstuffs. There¿s no branch.¿ These are poems that  examine what is tender and terrible in the world, ranging from the extrajudicial civil massacres of partisans during and after the Second World War, to the prejudicial violence carried out in twenty-first-century Europe against people forced to migrate from the Middle East, North Africa, and India. Opera Buffa witnesses anarchical plutocracy, climate catastrophe, and so much more. ¿Do you feel the footsteps?/ Do you feel the approach?¿ This is Opera Buffa.