The Blue Tower
2011
First Published
3.73
Average Rating
96
Number of Pages
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 “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, The Blue Tower is an essential volume.
Avg Rating
3.73
Number of Ratings
49
5 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author
Tomaz Salamun
Author · 16 books
Tomaž Šalamun was a Slovenian poet, who has had books translated into most of the European languages. He lived in Ljubljana and occasionally teaches in the USA. His recent books in English are The Book for My Brother, Row, and Woods and Chalices.
