Kiss the Eyes of Peace by Toma alamun Hardback Book 9781639550401

An authoritative volume representing the vast oeuvre of one of the twentieth centurys most brilliant and visionary poetsWidely regarded as some of the most important and innovative poetry from postwar Europe Tomaamp382 amp352alamunamp8217s work offers a singularly thrilling reading experience Sharp and subtle amp352alamunamp8217s rhythms intertwine with an incantatory force his prescient liberatory politics and poetics pulse like a heartbeat In Kiss the Eyes of Peace the histories of Slovenia the former Yugoslavia and Europe are broken into kaleidoscopic harmonies of terror and joy friends and family talk to each other under the sun as snow apples and deer mingle with blood and bones with salt and cabbage with gold silk and wine and with God and heaven in the sand and grassquotLove tore apart all my theoriesquot writes amp352alamun His oracular poems suffused with mystic pronouncements that confound and delight are as moving as they are eerie And yet if amp8220every true poet is a monsteramp8221 amp352alamunamp8217s profound imagination also offers us peacegrace evenamp8212in the wildness and wilderness of his art amp8220May everything erupt on a clear day just as it is into...