Barren Harvest: Selected Poems of Dane Zajc
Publishing Details
Barren Harvest: Selected Poems of Dane Zajc
By (Author) Dane Zajc
Edited by Ales Debeljak
Translated by Erica Johnson-Debeljak
White Pine Press
White Pine Press
15th January 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Teaching of a specific subject
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
891.8415
Physical Properties
96
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
161g
Description
Zajc, born in 1929, is one of Central Europes most important poets and a founding father of post-World War II modernism. This is the first comprehensive volume of his work to appear in English and presents the entire creative arch of Zajcs vision from early poems to his mature work. Having been incarcerated in communist jails, Zajcs political resistance to the dictatorial regime gives his work an urgency that propels the reader into a vertigo of sinister and evil. His poems speak of the profound solitude that is the destiny of contemporary man, using the vocabulary of the natural world and of bodily sensations to illuminate both the mortal and lethal aspects of the human condition.
