Dear Metka! 16.III.1979

Authors

Tomaž Šalamun
Brian Henry, University of RichmondFollow

Contributor

translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry

Abstract

TOMAŽ ŠALAMUN (1941–2014) published more than fifty books of poetry in Slovenia. Translated into over twenty-five languages, his poetry received numerous awards, including the Jenko Prize, the Prešeren Prize, the European Prize for Poetry, and the Mladost Prize.

BRIAN HENRY is the author of eleven books of poetry and the recent prose book Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation (Parlor, 2022). He is editing and translating Tomaž Šalamun’s Selected Poems 1964-2014 for Milkweed Editions.

Document Type

Poem

Publication Date

2023

Publisher Statement

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Recommended Citation

Šalamun, T. (2023). 16.III.1979. (B. Henry, Trans.) Bennington Review, 12.