There are very few major European poets of the early twentieth century not already known to English-language audiences, but Srecko Kosovel is one. Often called the Slovene Rimbaud (he died at twenty-two, leaving almost 1,000 poems), the full range and significance of his poetry has been revealed only slowly even to Slovenians themselves, and yet he is a major voice of Central European modernism, whose work explores powerfully and incisively the problems of individual identity and allegiance in the face of the new century with its strong call, to one living through the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to international socialism. Kosovel's poetry reflects at once the turmoil of the Balkans after the Great War and, at exactly the same time as Ungaretti, Joyce and Rilke were experiencing it, so deep a love of and connection to his native Karst region that he turns it into one of the most remarkable symbolic landscapes of twentieth century poetry. Although certain limited English selections of his work have appeared in the past, this edition, superbly translated by the poets Bert Pribac (Slovenia) and David Brooks (Australia), is the largest and most comprehensive selection to have appeared in any language other than his own.

Table of Contents:
Srecko Kosovel: Life and Poetry Part I The Golden Boat Ballad October A Premonition Karst Village Autumn Dinner Last Night Karst Autumn A Trip August Pines Evening by the Red Sand Dune At a Provincial Station All These Words Night I Saw the Pines Grow Cyclamens On the Park Bench I Remember My Mother Waits In the Coffee Bar New Year Sonnet Village Behind the Pines The Sun, Nada Just One Dread Death Sonnet Nocturne My Poem The Ninth Country This Horrible Time On a Grey Morning Melancholy of Hunger The Golden Boat Ecstasy of Death A Sketch at the Concert As If they were Landscapes Astral Erotics The Gathering People with a Wound I Am There is No Death The White House I Am Not Alone The Sail Part II Integrals Rhymes Autumn Quiet Kons: The Cat Evacuation of Spirit Kons: ABC Prostituted Culture The Mystic Light of Theory 1 My Black Inkpot Kons. 5 Integrals Above the Madhouse Objects Without Soul The Laugh of King Dada A Heart in Alcohol Poem No. X The Spherical Mirror Kons Kons: XY Kludsky Circus, Seat 461 Poem No. 1 Conversation at Twilight Kons: 4 Grey Lord Radic Hey, Hey Near Midnight Kons. Kons. Kons. Delirium Cops At the Station The Longhaired Romantic A Sign Above the Town KONS Ljubljana is Sleeping Herrings Black Walls Our Eyes Europe is Dying A Reflection from the Attic Impression A Bottle in a Corner Poem Kons The Devil, You'd Say The Red Rocket The Singing Arc Lamp A Face at the Window A Streetlamp Autumn In Green India Kaleidoscope A Suicide in Front of a Mirror Sketch Blue Horses Autumn Landscape Part III When Spring Arrives A Cold Thought Bianca Green Parrot Autumn Day In My Room Moon over the City A Ship Departing Negative Total Italian Culture 3 The Syphilitic Captain A Soft Evening Kons: X The Arch of Triumph Kons: M Society is Collapsing The Budget Requiem Notes