The Blue Tower

by Tomaž Šalamun and Michael Biggins

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 abandon: "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 Tomaz Salamun's poetry that has made him an inspiration to successive generations of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547364768
• ISBN13: 9780547364766
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"