Hippodrome

Despite the natural divides between English and Slovene, throughout Hippodrome there are echoes of a familiar American modernism in Miklavž Komelj's polyglot, esoteric references, and in his sense of himself as embedded in an international tradition. Komelj is a bit of a chimera: his book includes imagistic lyrics, pastiches of quotes, persona poems, political polemics, and a reasonably faithful translation of Seneca. He references Futurist operas, NATO military action, personal friends, an...