Instead of Whom Does the Flower Bloom: The Poems of Vlado Kreslin
✍ Scribed by Vlado Kreslin
- Book ID
- 110805465
- Publisher
- Guernica Editions
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 40 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781550716382
- ASIN
- B00K6N3D7I
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Vlado Kreslin will be a revelation to North American readers. His poems seem at one and the same time postmodern and pre-modern. They evoke the lost world of a resilient people in a language that resonates in its plain-spokenness with the losses that all thoughtful people in a globalized economy confront. Don't let the ostensibly un-ironic, even folksy language fool you--his poems slyly combine simplicity of means with complexity of effect, a combination only an artist of great sophistication can pull off. Urska Charney's translations honor both aspects of Kreslin's style. Kreslin is lucky to have found such a sensitive and canny translator. And so are we.