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Slovenia

Letters without Envelopes

By Suzana Tratnik

Her Swiss friend had assured her that she was no longer the only lesbian in Yugoslavia.

Translated from Slovene by Špela Bibič

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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

From “You Do Understand?”

By Andrej Blatnik

I lay there with my eyes closed, waiting for my husband to vacate his half of the bed. To go to work, of course.

Translated from Slovene by Tamara M. Soban

“Walking”

By Marjan Strojan

All along our Wooden Cross garden the peonies were dying. . .

Translated from Slovene by the author

Ballad of Aunt Else’s Refugees

By Lidija Dimkovska

It's cold in Schlossberg. The stoves are full / of our nails and hairs.

Translated from Macedonian by Peggy Reid & Ljubica Arsovska

Under the Surface

By Mojca Kumerdej

You will never know the real reason. I will never tell you.

Translated from Slovenian by Laura Cuder Turk

Cons: Cat

By Srecko Kosovel

When a new poet comes, / the piano everywhere responds.

Translated from Slovenian by Erica Johnson Debeljak

From “The Fourth Take”

By Polona Glavan

Don't stare, he hissed in his ear.

Translated from Slovene by the author

From “A Boy and Death”

By Lojze Kovacic

I'll jerk them out of your head if you don't clean up in front of the woodshed next time, she screamed.

Translated from Slovenian by Miriam Drev & W. Martin

The Promise

By Ales Debeljak

I was here. But not only here, my lord

Translated from Slovenian by Andrew Zawacki & Ales Debeljak

Unanswered Plea

By Ales Debeljak

I don't know / nor want to know her name, and maybe that's / the reason I can't breathe,

Translated from Slovenian by Andrew Zawacki & Ales Debeljak