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Tomaž Šalamun

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Tomaž Šalamun

Tomaž Šalamun lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and occasionally teaches in the USA. His recent books translated into English are Woods and Chalices (Harcourt 2008), Poker (Ugly Duckling Presse, second edition 2008) and There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair  (Counterpath Press, 2009)....

His Blue Tower is due from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2010. He received the Europäische Preis in Münster, Germany in 2007 and a Golden Wreath from Struga Poetry Evenings in Macedonia in 2009.

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Articles by Tomaž Šalamun

Largo di Vitoria
By Tomaž Šalamun
Out of milk, out of strong skin jumps the big brother.
Translated from Slovene by Michael Thomas Taren
Movements
By Tomaž Šalamun
You don’t move on upon love, / you move on upon a territory.
Translated from Slovene by Thomas Kane & Tomaž Šalamun
From the Figure 6 Into Ships
By Tomaž Šalamun
You destroyed all letters. / You burned the heavenly garden.
Translated from Slovene by Thomas Kane & Tomaž Šalamun