Machine generated contents note: King impersonator. Piran -- Trieste Trst Triest -- Komen -- Karst Meadow Near Col -- Lagoon Near Grado -- Hay Sheds In Laze -- Venezia -- Borderlands -- A Summer Day On The Jaunfeld -- Kosuta -- Goce Return -- Carantania -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- Distant Transit -- House Of Old Languages -- Home -- Dreaming Language -- Translation -- Ljubljanica River Of Memory -- Barje Moors -- My Grandfather's Escape From The Black Sea -- Transit -- All Is Fulfilled With The Word In Which -- Ocean And Poem -- Life-Eater -- Poem And Sense -- Mute Poem -- House Of Love -- Night Woman -- Madrid Disparates -- House Of Love -- Appassionata -- House Of Desires -- House Of Children At Play -- Love And Grass -- Summer Skirmish -- Happy In Sveti Ivan -- Rubbish And Poppy -- Festival -- In The Tower -- The Invisible Girl -- i -- ii -- iii -- iv -- v -- Leaving the isle of girlhood -- Memory Forget-Me-Not Monument -- Catchfly eyebright bird's eye -- On the shore path in the evening light -- When language left me -- Assumed name -- What was -- It could be a woman who shows -- Nothing to be done, as always -- Memory, forget-me-not, monument -- Talking with thistles -- King matjaz visits his village -- Village king -- Impresario -- King impersonator.
Summary:
"Infused with movement, Maja Haderlap's distant transit traverses Slovenia's scenic landscape and violent history, searching for a sense of place within its evershifting boundaries. Avoiding traditional forms and pronounced rhythms, Haderlap unleashes a flow of evocative, captivating passages whose power lies in their associative richness and precision of expression, vividly conjuring Slovenia's natural world - its rolling meadows, snow-capped alps, and sparkling Adriatic coast. Belonging to the Slovene ethnic minority and its inherited, transgenerational trauma, Haderlap explores the burden of history and the prolonged aftershock of conflict - warm, lavish pastoral passages conceal dark memories, and musings on the way language can create and dissolve borders reveal a deep longing for a sense of home. At its core, distant transit is an ode to survival, building a monument to traditions and lives lost"-- Provided by publisher.
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