Blackboards

by Tomaz Salamun

Overview

Internationally acclaimed Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun wrote Blackboards in 1997, and two years later celebrated Slovenian artist Metka Krasovec painted “Trak,” a captivating series of images spanning one long scroll of paper. Joined together, as poet John Yau writes in his introduction, “Salamun’s melancholia and Krasovec’s sense of longing set in motion… a dance of words and images, of words that evoke images we cannot picture, and images that define a world that cannot be contained in words.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780975499009
Publisher:	Saturnalia Books
Publication date:	03/01/2004
Series:	Poet/Artist Collaboration Series , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

TOMAZ SALAMUN, widely recognized as one of the leading Central European poets, is the author of more than thirty collections of poetry, and has had books translated into most of the European languages. His most recent book in English is The Book for My Brother (Harvest, 2006). METKA KRASOVEC is the recipient of Slovenia’s highest awards for painting, the Preseren Foundation Award and the Jakopic Award. She has taken part in nearly 300 exhibitions around the globe. JOHN YAU is a well-known poet, critic, and editor. He has published many books of poems, most recently Paradiso Diaspora, and several works of prose, as well as monographs on the work of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and A. R. Penck. His poetry and criticism have been published in dozens of national magazines. The recipient of numerous awards, including being named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by France, Yau teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Introduction - John Yau
Palladium
Pumpkin
What All I've Forgotten
The Otter
Untitled (Aha! Aha! Aha!)
Africa
At First He Tried To Drown Himself, Then He Emigrated
Olive Tree and Hair
To Sink
Barbies
Those and Those
Rubber
Fjords
The Drama As the Actor
JWV
Melancholia Fumosa
Vacatio. Ficino
Narcisso Con Gli Occhi Glauchi
Pastries Hit the Floor
Windows of Umbria
My Wooden Benches
Park
Gojmir Anton Kos
Vivat
Among the Hovel
Hawthorn
Quid pro quo
Gaberce
Auden
Science
Yo Yo Ma
Stefanel Jacket
Trieste mia
A Poem For Atom Egoyan
Brad Gooch
Recollections of a Miner
As Early As the Tang Dynasty
The Last Lighthouse Keeper
Canova, Neighbor
Varese
Union Square
Giusterna
A Goalie and Why
It Sticks
Maggio Selvaggio, High Above the Trail
Hugs
The Sunflower Above the Gates of Hell
Pharoah's Guardians, Mark Levine
Ralph
Edoardo's Pathetic Carelessness
Todi
Beastlike Fury and a Minuet
Tiger
Flour
Heated Passions