The Master of Insomnia. Boris A. Novak

      

      The Master of Insomnia

      Selected Poems

      Boris A. Novak

      With an Introduction by Aleš Debeljak

      Translated by

      Michael Biggins, Mia Dintinjana,

      Evald Flisar, Richard Jackson,

      Erica Johnson Debeljak, Boris A. Novak,

      Lili Potpara, Andrew Wachtel,

      and Irena Zorko

      CONTENTS

       Cover

      Title Page

      OTHER WORKS IN DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS’S

      SLOVENIAN LITERATURE SERIES

      INTRODUCTION

      THE GARDENER OF SILENCE (1973–75)

       A handkerchief

       Every evening

       Light

       Shadows

       No wind

       Dawn

       Tide

       No land

       Every sail

       The bank

       The circle

       An echo

       A monument

       A child

       A poem

       A flower

       A tree

       Touch

       Snow

       These lines

       A poet

      STILL LIFE WITH VERSES (1977)

       Still Life with Verses

       A Dream is Snowing

       Poem

       Uni-verse

      THE DAUGHTER OF MEMORY (1981)

       The Wings of Time: IV. Winter

      CORONATION (1984):

      (wreath of sonnets)

       1–15

       Sonnet of Sonnets

      THE FORMS OF THE WORLD (1991):

      (A Textbook of Poetic Forms)

       Night Elegy

      CATACLYSM (1991)

       The Tower

       Absence

       Vertigo

       The First Poem

       Southeast of Memory

      THE MASTER OF INSOMNIA (1995)

       Past and Present

       Black Hole

       Brothers

       Springtime

       Keeping Awake

       Exile

       Letter

       Father

       Intérieur

       Rapid Disintegration

      ALBA (1999)

       Alba

       Borders

       Your Little Bottles

       Your Scent

       Orpheus and Eurydice, Gare du Nord

      ECHO (2000)

       Living Shadow

       Horse, Rider, Lake

       Confession

       Perpendicular Land

      GLOWING (2003)

       Discovering the Everyday

       Our Supper

       Our One House

      RITUALS OF FAREWELL