{"product_id":"smugglers-paperback","title":"Smugglers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAles Debeljak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrian Henry\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/i\u003e move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Ales Debeljak's urban imagination creates a mosaic--intimate and historical--of a vanished people and their country. Every poem in \u003ci\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/i\u003e is sixteen lines long--four quatrains, a common form for Debeljak. This structural regularity is reinforced by a commitment to visual balance, with each poem working as a kind of grid into which the poet pours memories and associative riffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Bookstore: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt least you are blessed. Winter's here. In darkness, awake\u003cbr\u003esince yesterday, I came to browse again through the titles of old\u003cbr\u003ebooks, wobbly skyscrapers, writers of my youth and stiffened honey.\u003cbr\u003eNo opening hours on the door, a minor poet with no woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003esits behind files in the front. I know him from when\u003cbr\u003ewe all shouted in one loyal voice, collected works on sale\u003cbr\u003efor a handful of cents, read the holy Kapital\u003cbr\u003elike zealots. Well, okay: not exactly all. Some of us took\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eanother road . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAles Debeljak\u003c\/b\u003e's books have appeared in English, Japanese, German, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak, Finnish, Lithuanian, and Italian translations. He teaches in the department of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Henry\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books of poetry and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. He teaches at University of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAles Debeljak has published eight books of poetry and twelve books of essays in Slovenian. His books have appeared in English, Japanese, German, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak, Finnish, Lithuanian, and Italian translation. \u003ci\u003eWithout Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e appeared from Persea Books in 2010. He has won the Preseren Foundation Prize, the Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Prize, the Chiqyu Poetry Prize in Japan, and the Jenko Prize. Debeljak teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrian Henry is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eBrother No One\u003c\/i\u003e (Salt Publishing, 2013). His translation of Tomaz Salamun's \u003ci\u003eWoods and Chalices\u003c\/i\u003e appeared from Harcourt in 2008, and his translation of Ales Steger's \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Things\u003c\/i\u003e appeared from BOA Editions in 2010 and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. He has received numerous awards for his poetry and translations, including fellowships from the NEA, the Howard Foundation, and the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Richmond, VA.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284914225401,"sku":"9781938160677","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cEFocXlqazVqRnBYNmtOcE5UQ0xTdz09.webp?v=1769092585","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/smugglers-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}