The Book of Bodies

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The poems in Ale tegers The Book of Bodies roam across personal experience, human history, and the natural world to unlock intellectual and emotional connections.

are essential to tegers understanding of the world.

Esteemed American readers, Ale teger is the real thing! He is the poet of inimitable gifts! He is one of the best Eastern European poets of his generation! It is the truth: teger is a marvelous voice, one that takes some of the playfulness of his Yugoslavian compatriots Vasko Popa and Toma alamun to the whole new level.
Ilya Kaminsky

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, and many other places. His poetry and translations have received numerous honors, including two NEA fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the Cecil B. Hemley Memorial Award, the George Bogin Memorial Award, and a Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences grant.

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Slovenian writer Ale teger has published eight books of poetry, three novels, and two books of essays. A Chevalier des Artes et Lettres in France and a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, he received the 1998 Veronika Prize for the best Slovenian poetry book, the 1999 Petrarch Prize for young European authors, the 2007 Roanc Award for the best Slovenian book of essays, and the 2016 International Bienek Prize. His work has been translated into over 15 languages, including Chinese, German, Czech, Croatian, Hungarian, and Spanish. Four of his books have been published in English: The Book of Things, which won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award; Berlin; the novel Absolution; and Above the Sky Beneath the Earth. He also has worked in the field of visual arts (most recently with a large scale installation at the International Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India), completed several collaborations with musicians (Godalika, Uro Rojko, Peter N. Gruber), and collaborated with Peter Zach on the film Beyond Boundaries. Brian Henry is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Permanent State. He co-edited the international magazine Verse from 1995 to 2018 and established the Toma alamun Prize in 2015. His translation of Ale tegers The Book of Things appeared from BOA Editions in 2010 and won the Best Translated Book Award. He also has translated Toma alamuns Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008), Ale Debeljaks Smugglers (BOA, 2015), and Ale tegers Above the Sky Beneath the Earth (White Pine, 2019) and Berlin (Counterpath, 2015). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the New York Times, Poetry, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, and many other places. His poetry and translations have received numerous honors, including two NEA fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the Cecil B. Hemley Memorial Award, the George Bogin Memorial Award, and a Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences grant.