From a groundbreaking Slovenian-Austrian poet comes an evocative, captivating collection on searching for home in a landscape burdened with violent history.
At its core, Distant Transit is an ode to survival, building a monument to traditions and lives lost.
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Infused with movement, Maja Haderlapβs Distant Transit traverses Sloveniaβs scenic landscape and violent history, searching for a sense of place within its ever-shifting boundaries.
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Avoiding traditional forms and pronounced rhythms, Haderlap unleashes a flow of evocative, captivating passages whose power lies in their associative richness and precision of expression, vividly conjuring Sloveniaβs natural worldββits rolling meadows, snow-capped alps, and sparkling Adriatic coast.
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Belonging to the Slovene ethnic minority and its inherited, transgenerational trauma, Haderlap explores the burden of history and the prolonged aftershock of conflictββwarm, lavish pastoral passages conceal dark memories, and musings on the way language can create and dissolve borders reveal a deep longing for a sense of home.