Woods And Chalices

Tomaz Salamun

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780151014255
• eBook ISBN: 9780544343665
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism in Poetry
• Index: Literature

Inspired by Rimbaud and Ashbery, the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun is now inspiring the younger generation of American poets—and Woods and Chalices will secure his place in the ranks of influential, experimental twenty-first-century writers. Šalamun’s strengths are on display here: innocence and obscenity, closely allied; a great historical reach; and questions, commands, and statements of identity that challenge all norms and yet seem uncannily familiar and right— “I’m molasses, don’t forget that.”

 

Coat of Arms

The wet sun stands on dark bricks.

Through the king’s mouth we see teeth.

He sews lips. The owl moves its head.

She’s tired, drowsy and black.

She doesn’t glow in gold like she’d have to.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Table of Contents

Copyright

Dedication

The Lucid Slovenian Green

Mills

In the Tongues of Bells

The Clouds of Tiepolo

The Edge From Where We Measure

Ferryman

Tiepolo Again

In the Tent Among Grapes

Mother and Death

Along Grajena River

The Dead

Ancestor

Academy of American Poets

Enamel

Vases

Pessoa Scolding Whitman

The Pacific Again

Libero

In New York, After Diplomatic Training

Boiling Throats

The Catalans, The Moors

Sand and Spleen Were Left in Your Nose

Arm Out and Point the Way

Fallow Land and the Fates

Perfection

Avenues

Dislocated, Circulating

Car

Odessa

Offspring and the Baptism

Washington

The King Likes the Sun

You are At Home Here

Bites and Happiness

Baruzza

The Linden Tree

Holy Science

We Lived in a Hut, Shivering with Cold

At Low Tide . . .

Blue Wave

Colombia

And On The Slopes of La Paz

Coat of Arms

Fiery Chariot

Shifting The Dedications

Washing in Gold

The Wood’s White Arm

The Kid From Harkov

Porta Di Leone

Paleochora

Persia

In The Walk of Tiny Dews

Olive Trees

Mornings

It Blunts

Marasca

Scarlet Toga

Shepherd, You are Just Learning

The Cube That Spins and Sizzles, Circumscribes The Circle

The Man I Respected

The Hidden Wheel of Catherine of Siena

White Cones

Horses and Millet

Henry of Toulouse, Is That You?

New York–Montreal Train, 24 January, 1974

The West

Publication Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Translator

Compilation copyright © 2000 by Tomaž Šalamun

English translation copyright © 2008, 2007 by Brian Henry and Tomaž Šalamun

 

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www.hmhco.com

 

This is a translation of Gozd in kelihi

 

First published in Slovenia by Cankarjeva zalozba, 2000

 

Publication acknowledgments appear at the end of the ebook and constitute a continuation of the copyright page.

 

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Šalamun, Tomaž.
Woods and chalices /Tomaž Šalamun; translated from the Slovenian
by Brian Henry and the author.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.

1. Šalamun, Tomaž—Translations into English.
I. Henry, Brian, 1972- II. Title.
PG1919.29.A5.W66 2007
891.8'415—dc22 2007037468
ISBN 978-0-15-101425-5

 

eISBN 978-0-544-34366-5
v1.0914

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• The Lucid Slovenian Green
• Mills
• In the Tongues of Bells
• The Clouds of Tiepolo
• The Edge From Where We Measure
• Ferryman
• Tiepolo Again
• In the Tent Among Grapes
• Mother and Death
• Along Grajena River
• The Dead
• Ancestor
• Academy of American Poets
• Enamel
• Vases
• Pessoa Scolding Whitman
• The Pacific Again
• Libero
• In New York, After Diplomatic Training
• Boiling Throats
• The Catalans, The Moors
• Sand and Spleen Were Left in Your Nose
• Arm Out and Point the Way
• Fallow Land and the Fates
• Perfection
• Avenues
• Dislocated, Circulating
• Car
• Odessa
• Offspring and the Baptism
• Washington
• The King Likes the Sun
• You are At Home Here
• Bites and Happiness
• Baruzza
• The Linden Tree
• Holy Science
• We Lived in a Hut, Shivering with Cold
• At Low Tide . . .
• Blue Wave
• Colombia
• And On The Slopes of La Paz
• Coat of Arms
• Fiery Chariot
• Shifting The Dedications
• Washing in Gold
• The Wood’s White Arm
• The Kid From Harkov
• Porta Di Leone
• Paleochora
• Persia
• In The Walk of Tiny Dews
• Olive Trees
• Mornings
• It Blunts
• Marasca
• Scarlet Toga
• Shepherd, You are Just Learning
• The Cube That Spins and Sizzles, Circumscribes The Circle
• The Man I Respected
• The Hidden Wheel of Catherine of Siena
• White Cones
• Horses and Millet
• Henry of Toulouse, Is That You?
• New York–Montreal Train, 24 January, 1974
• The West
• Publication Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• About the Translator