The work of this “eminent, still-wild spirit of Central Europe” (Publishers Weekly) continues to electrify. In The Blue Tower, language is remade with tenderness and abandon: “Rommel was kissing heaven’s dainty hands and yet / from his airplane above the Sahara my uncle / Rafko Perhauc still blew him to bits.” There is an effervescence and a sense of freedom to Tomaž Salamun’s poetry that has made him an inspiration to successive generations of American poets, “a poetic bridge between old European roots and the American adventure” (Associated Press). Trivial and monumental, beautiful and grotesque, healing, ferocious, mad: The Blue Tower is an essential volume.
The goldfinch sails. The goldfinch sings. Where are you, Eugenijus? Racing
across, opening a hollow with your fingernails. You the pain of the contour, me
that of the train. Linda Bierds drives a car that comes from the Tatras. The condor
ripens the bird. My trousers smell like gasoline. Do you see the pool? Do you see
the pool? Do you see the angel's elbow? It led me to those cliffs arrayed like
Vikings. Zebras have scraped eyes. Ibrahim, Drago and Miklavž are great guys.
Iodine boils ...
Tahrir Suite is a book-length poem that contemplates immigration, homeland, and diaspora in the twenty-first century. The poem, inspired by recent events in Egypt, cycles through the journey of two Egyptians moving across borders, languages, cultures, landscapes, and political systems while their life in the U.S. diaspora evolves and their home country undergoes revolutionary change. Written from a perspective and about a place that is virtually unexplored in contemporary American poetry, Tahrir Suite works to capture the complicated essence of what it means to be from a specific place that is experiencing such radical change and how our understandings of “home” and “place” constantly evolve. Tahrir Suite is a musical meditation on what it means to be a global citizen in contemporary times.
Tahrir Suite is a musical meditation on what it means to be a global citizen in contemporary times.
This is for You. This poetry book is not a love story or an allergory. It's simply my truths.
This is for You. This poetry book is not a love story or an allergory. It's simply my truths.
Rumi is renowned as one of the world's most popular mystical poets. The beauty and romance of his glorious verses on divine love have endeared us to this Persian master. These verses are not simply poetry; they reflect the heart and soul of an individual who has totally embraced God through the Sufi path of love.
Rumi is renowned as one of the world's most popular mystical poets. The beauty and romance of his glorious verses on divine love have endeared us to this Persian master.
