{"title":"Brian Henry","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrian Henry is a poet, translator, and editor. He earned his MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has since written ten collections of poetry and translated Tomaž Ŝalamun’s \u003cem\u003eWoods and Chalices \u003c\/em\u003e(2008) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/ales-steger\" title=\"Ales Steger\"\u003eAleš Ŝteger\u003c\/a\u003e’s \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/translations\/products\/the-book-of-things\" title=\"The Book of Things\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Book of Things \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e(2010), which won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry. Henry’s translation of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/ales-debeljak\" title=\"Ales Debeljak\"\u003eAleš Debeljak\u003c\/a\u003e’s \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/translations\/products\/smugglers\" title=\"Smugglers\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was published by BOA Editions in 2015 and received a Howard Foundation Fellowship. He has received fellowships for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Program. He teaches at the University of Richmond.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-book-of-things","title":"The Book of Things","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2011 Best Translated Book of the Year Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Winner of the 2011 Award for The Best Literary Translation into English from the AATSEEL\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Polish with an Introduction by Brian Henry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom his first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eChessboards of Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1995 when he was 22 years old, Aleš Šteger has been considered one of \u003cplace\u003eSlovenia\u003c\/place\u003e’s most promising poets. That promise has been unleashed over the course of a decade and a half, through three more books of poetry (\u003cem\u003eKashmir\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eProtuberances\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Things\u003c\/em\u003e), a fictional travelogue in Peru (January in the Middle of Summer), and a collection of lyric essays (\u003cstate\u003e\u003cplace w:st=\"on\"\u003eBerlin\u003c\/place\u003e\u003c\/state\u003e), which received an award for being the best book of essays written in Slovenian. The philosophical and lyrical sophistication of his poems, along with his work as a leading book editor and festival organizer, earned Šteger a reputation that quickly traveled beyond the borders of \u003cplace\u003eSlovenia\u003c\/place\u003e. The international reach of his work seems appropriate considering its international concerns and refusal to acknowledge limits to, or boundaries of, art, thought, and even genre. Although grounded in and growing from his home country, Šteger’s work in multiple genres and on many fronts testifies to his growing stature as one of \u003cplace\u003eCentral Europe\u003c\/place\u003e’s most essential literary figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eShovel\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe workers left. Your best friend\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eStopped alone in the middle of a half-scraped plot.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs if she would want to work without a break.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eShe already dug up so much of the world, not seeing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThat the soil does not end beneath the soil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAnd that the deeper the dig, the harder it is for a little shovel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWill she dig up some insight?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eButterflies’ bones, coins of saliva, the tongue of a mute?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIs her calling her only purpose?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSo that she distracts herself on quiet evenings,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLike one who stares at eh thickening darkness through a window,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhich stares through the thickening darkness in oneself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: October 19, 2010\u003cbr\u003eISBN:\u003cstrong\u003e 978-1-934414-41-5\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2010\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420112389,"sku":"9781934414415","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/TheBookofThings.jpg?v=1527683360"},{"product_id":"smugglers","title":"Smugglers","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBilingual Edition | Translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eSmugglers \u003c\/em\u003emove through rapid historical shifts and meditations on personal experience, exploring the depths and limits of comprehension through the people and geography of the Balkans. Ultimately, Aleš Debeljak\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es urban imagination creates a mosaic—intimate and historical—of a vanished people and their country. Every poem in Smugglers is sixteen lines long—four quatrains, a common form for Debeljak. This structural regularity is reinforced by a commitment to visual balance, with each poem working as a kind of grid into which the poet pours memories and associative riffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003ePaperboy\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI climbed through the window of southern light,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewhich some saw in the dark, and walked to the city\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI knew well. My pockets were heavy and wet snow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003efell: piles of newspaper were waiting for me.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAn urgent matter: whoever loves risks many forms\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eof amazement. Leaves rustle, headlines\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eand popular commentaries in the upper left corner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eburn. Accounts of arguments swarm between four walls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eand the ceiling, between the sky and pleading looks.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThey flow into reports on hunger and the crime page,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e obituaries for messengers of fantasy and chapters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eon the language of wild flowers, perhaps\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003elavender, definitely not tulips. I walk barefoot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ein the foreign winter, nothing really helps, I abuse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emany readers and misprints, replacing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003enews with flat rocks from the island of Pag.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eAleš Debeljak’s \u003cem\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/em\u003e is the type of poetry book that, once the reader establishes a relationship with it, is difficult to lend out or give away. I suggest this because not every book of poems is immediately understood, not every book is instantly appreciated. But \u003cem\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/em\u003e has a quiet, dazzling nature to it that I find palpable. And so a reluctance to share it is an act to protect its artistry, as if to say, ‘You may read it if only you promise to attempt feeling what I feel.’ A selfish notion, sure, but this is one of those books that came along (for me) when needed. I recommend \u003cem\u003eSmugglers\u003c\/em\u003e without question. I just can’t quite let you see my copy.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Damon Marbut, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e...This is perhaps one of Debeljak’s most intimate and exciting collections. The picturesque architecture of Ljubljana evokes the timeless beauty of baroque art and the poet’s attachment to it. At the same time, in the dark deserted interiors reside the ghosts of the past, a past that is unfortunately more powerful than the future.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Bojana Stojanović Pantović\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eAleš Debeljak is sensitive to the enormity and complexity of our historical and intellectual predicament.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Charles Simic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eIn Smugglers, Aleš Debeljak feeds himself and his readers with a delicious mixture of past, present and future, with tastes of reminis­cence and expectations of the world’s new savors.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jenko Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e[Debeljak] belongs to the group of prominent intellectuals and writers whose poetry\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003eas well as critical, theoretical, and philosophical practice\u003cem\u003e—\u003c\/em\u003emarked the former Yugoslav cultural and literary space. The author is internationally renowned as one of the major poets of central Europe.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—World Literature Today\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2015\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420393989,"sku":"9781938160677","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Smugglers_FinalFront_c62fd4fa-69f0-4bf2-a02a-91dcc3727f35.jpg?v=1527683351"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/henry_brian-processed.jpg?v=1526052373","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/brian-henry.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}