A collision between contemporary poetics and the Renaissance lyric, between aestheticism and political engagement, The Master of Insomnia is a collection of Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak's verse from the last fifteen years, including numerous poems never before available in English. In these sensitive translations, Novak stands revealed as both innovator and observer; as critic AleS Debeljak has written: The poet's power in bearing witness to Sarajevo and Dalmatia, to his childhood room and his retired father, to the indifferent passage of time and the desperate pain of loss, confirms the melancholy clairvoyance of Walter Benjamin, who stated that what is essential hides in the marginal, negligent, and hardly observed details. Whoever strives to see the 'big picture' will inevitably overlook the essential...[Novak's] wide-open eyes must watch over both the beauty of this life and the horror of its destruction.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN-13
9781564787835
eBay Product ID (ePID)
115610435
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Master of Insomnia: Selected Poems
Author
Boris a Novak
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
104 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
181g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Boris a Novak
Series Title
Slovenian Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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