Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Haderlap, Maja; Lewis, Tess |
| Publisher: | Archipelago |
| Date: | 3/22/2022 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
From a groundbreaking Slovenian-Austrian poet comes an evocative, captivating collection on searching for home in a landscape burdened with violent history.
At its core, Distant Transit is an ode to survival, building a monument to traditions and lives lost.
Infused with movement, Maja Haderlap’s Distant Transit traverses Slovenia’s scenic landscape and violent history, searching fora sense of place within its ever-shifting boundaries.
Avoidingtraditional forms and pronounced rhythms, Haderlap unleashes a flow ofevocative, captivating passages whose power lies in their associativerichness and precision of expression, vividly conjuring Slovenia’snatural world––its rolling meadows, snow-capped alps, and sparklingAdriatic coast.
Belonging to the Slovene ethnic minority and itsinherited, transgenerational trauma, Haderlap explores the burden ofhistory and the prolonged aftershock of conflict––warm, lavish pastoralpassages conceal dark memories, and musings on the way language cancreate and dissolve borders reveal a deep longing for a sense of home.
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