Contempo- rary Slovenian poetry 2 - Ljudmila

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Barbara Korun (b. 1963) took a degree in the Slovenian
language and comparative literature and taught literature
at high schools. She works at the Slovenian National
Theatre in Ljubljana as a language advisor. Her collection
Ostrina miline (The Edge of Grace, 1999) received the
National Book Fair Award for a debut collection. Her
other collections of poetry & prose poems are Zapiski
iz podmizja (Notes from under the Table, 2003),
and Razpoke (Fissures, 2004). A leading figure in a
generation of radical young women poets, her work has
been published in many anthologies and reviews in
fourteen languages.
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“The short, imagistic poems rip into the senses and change
the perceptions of the reader, time and time again. Barbara
Korun’s direct voice is haunting and full of surprises. There is
a surrealistic tone to the poems – Korun dwells in myth, the
animal world, and relationships between men and women as
she builds upon human frailty to establish fresh dimensions
beyond it.” (Bloomsbury Review, Oct. 2005)
Barbara
Korun
Books in translation
Chasms, Chattanooga:
Poetry Miscelanny, 2003
Songs of Earth and Light,
Cork: Southword
Editions, 2005
Krilati šum, Zagreb:
Naklada Lara, 2008