Night Is More Abstract: New and Selected Poems

Miklavž Komelj is one of Slovenia’s leading intellectuals—a poet, artist, writer, art historian, and translator—who shares his wide-ranging interests and probing mind in this second collection to appear in English. A voracious reader, he peppers his work with allusions from literature, mythology, and history, but his inspiration also comes from less likely places, like a literary tattoo on the wrist of a woman sitting near him on a bus. Here are love lyrics, political polemics, mystical ver...