The Master of Insomnia
Selected Poems
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2012
120 pages
978-1-56478-819-1 (ISBN)
Description
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."
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- OTHER WORKS IN DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS'S: SLOVENIAN LITERATURE SERIES
- INTRODUCTION
- THE GARDENER OF SILENCE (1973-75)
- A handkerchief
- Every evening
- Light
- Shadows
- No wind
- Dawn
- Tide
- No land
- Every sail
- The bank
- The circle
- An echo
- A monument
- A child
- A poem
- A flower
- A tree
- Touch
- Snow
- These lines
- A poet
- STILL LIFE WITH VERSES (1977)
- Still Life with Verses
- A Dream is Snowing
- Poem
- Uni-verse
- THE DAUGHTER OF MEMORY (1981)
- The Wings of Time: IV. Winter
- CORONATION (1984): (wreath of sonnets)
- 1-15
- Sonnet of Sonnets
- THE FORMS OF THE WORLD (1991): (A Textbook of Poetic Forms)
- Night Elegy
- CATACLYSM (1991)
- The Tower
- Absence
- Vertigo
- The First Poem
- Southeast of Memory
- THE MASTER OF INSOMNIA (1995)
- Past and Present
- Black Hole
- Brothers
- Springtime
- Keeping Awake
- Exile
- Letter
- Father
- Intérieur
- Rapid Disintegration
- ALBA (1999)
- Alba
- Borders
- Your Little Bottles
- Your Scent
- Orpheus and Eurydice, Gare du Nord
- ECHO (2000)
- Living Shadow
- Horse, Rider, Lake
- Confession
- Perpendicular Land
- GLOWING (2003)
- Discovering the Everyday
- Our Supper
- Our One House
- RITUALS OF FAREWELL (2005)
- Birthday
- Timelessness
- Give Us Each Day Our Daily Death
- Death in the Feet
- From Beginning to End
- Soul
- The Hairclip
- Magic Suitcase
- Intimate Things
- Decisions: 11
- My Doppelganger
- To the Poet I Was
- LPM: LITTLE PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY (2007)
- My Grandfather Anton Novak, Tausendkünstler
- Turtles
- The Secret of Life
- Ragology (The Study of Rags)
- One Poem about Three People and Two Coats
- Butterflies
- The Image of a Partisan
- The First and Last Home
- Jealous Pajamas
- FRAGMENTS FROM THE EPOS (2009-12)
- Tidying up after the Dead
- A Final Account
- About the Author
- Slovenian Literature Series
- Copyright
