Embers in the house of night
Subtitle: selected poems of Edvard Kocbek
By: translated from the Slovene by Sonja Kravanja ; with an introduction by Richard Jackson.
Contributors: Kravanja, Sonja.
Series: Witter Bynner translation series -- 1
Publisher: Lumen, Inc.; Lumen Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Sante Fe, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Description: Embers in the House of Night collects the first translations into English of poems by Edvard Kocbek. Slovenia's greatest contemporary poet, as selected and rendered by Sonja Kravanja, her nation's premier translator. Kocbek writes lyrically of love, life, death, and womanhood. He also muses on political suppression from his vantage of 15 years under house arrest.