{"product_id":"nothing-is-lost-selected-poems-9780691118406","title":"Nothing Is Lost: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Edvard Kocbek | Michael Scammell | Veno Taufer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe selections introduce the reader to the full spectrum of Kocbek's long and distinguished career, starting with the pantheist and expressionist nature poems of his early period and continuing through the politically engaged poetry written during and after World War II, to the philosophical and metaphysical meditations of his fecund late period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders will be struck by the originality and freshness of Kocbek's sinewy and intense vision, rendered into fluid and idiomatic English by two experienced translators. The Slovenian texts appear on the facing pages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe opening stanza of \"Moon with a Halo\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe man beside me was killed.\u003cbr\u003eHe had a mother who bore him\u003cbr\u003eand a father who made him toys, \u003cbr\u003ehe had a brother and a playful uncle\u003cbr\u003eand a little girl with blond braids, \u003cbr\u003ehe had a wooden cart and a wooden horse, \u003cbr\u003ea trunkful of colored dreams\u003cbr\u003eand a brook where he used to fish.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47588897128599,"sku":"9780691118406","price":3580.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691118406.webp?v=1774968337","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/nothing-is-lost-selected-poems-9780691118406","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}