{"product_id":"9781938160677","title":"Smugglers","description":"Author: Ales Debeljak\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781938160677\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: BOA Editions\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 09 Jun 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 112 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/i\u003e move through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Ale Debeljak's urban imagination creates a mosaic-intimate and historical-of a vanished people and their country. Every poem in \u003ci\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/i\u003e is sixteen lines long-four quatrains, a common form for Debeljak. This structural regularity is reinforced by a commitment to visual balance, with each poem working as a kind of grid into which the poet pours memories and associative riffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Bookstore\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt least you are blessed. Winter's here. In darkness, awake\u003cbr\u003esince yesterday, I came to browse again through the titles of old\u003cbr\u003ebooks, wobbly skyscrapers, writers of my youth and stiffened honey.\u003cbr\u003eNo opening hours on the door, a minor poet with no woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003esits behind files in the front. I know him from when\u003cbr\u003ewe all shouted in one loyal voice, collected works on sale\u003cbr\u003efor a handful of cents, read the holy Kapital\u003cbr\u003elike zealots. Well, okay: not exactly all. Some of us took\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eanother road . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAle Debeljak\u003c\/b\u003e's books have appeared in English, Japanese, German, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, Slovak, Finnish, Lithuanian, and Italian translations. He teaches in the department of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Henry\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books of poetry and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. He teaches at University of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47925062369438,"sku":"ING-9781938160677","price":28.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781938160677.jpg?v=1782958517","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781938160677","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}