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Barbara Korun
Barbara Korun, born in Ljubljana in 1963, received the Slovenian Book Fair Prize for Best Poetry Debut in 1999 for her first book of poetry, »Ostrina miline« (The Sharpness of Mildness). Her fourth book »Pridem takoj« (I'll be right back) was awarded the Veronika Prize for Poetry in 2011, as the best poetry book of the year, and received the »Golden Bird« for outstanding achievement in literature.
She may be considered one of Slovenia's most prolific poets: Her poems are full of biting mockery of the conventions of bureaucratic language, whether at border crossings or in the ubiquitous shop talk at poetry festivals.
The Wolfe and the Wound (Der Wolf und die Wunde)
poems
- series 16ers
- hand-stitched
- 44 pages
- translated by Amalija Maček and Matthias Göritz
- title drawing by Klara Maček, Ljubljana
- a volume from our
- BOX—the wild Slovenes
- at Slovenia as Guest of Honour 2023
978-3-86638-402-6
Barbara Korun's poems are full of biting mockery of the conventions of bureaucratic language, whether at border crossings or in the ubiquitous shop talk at poetry festivals.
Her poetry runs deep when it comes to female desire, the body and the strange transformation into the animalistic that we all undergo when we love. Korun's lyrics are driven by wild rhythms and constant transgression. Strangely tender and yet sometimes clearly brutal, they tear down images of men, play with the conventions of gender-assessoires and question gender roles.
