The Master of Insomnia
Selected Poems
Boris A. Novak
With an Introduction by Aleš Debeljak
Translated by
Michael Biggins, Mia Dintinjana,
Evald Flisar, Richard Jackson,
Erica Johnson Debeljak, Boris A. Novak,
Lili Potpara, Andrew Wachtel,
and Irena Zorko
CONTENTS
Title Page
OTHER WORKS IN DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS’S
SLOVENIAN LITERATURE SERIES
INTRODUCTION
THE GARDENER OF SILENCE (1973–75)
STILL LIFE WITH VERSES (1977)
THE DAUGHTER OF MEMORY (1981)
CORONATION (1984):
(wreath of sonnets)
THE FORMS OF THE WORLD (1991):
(A Textbook of Poetic Forms)
CATACLYSM (1991)
THE MASTER OF INSOMNIA (1995)
ALBA (1999)
Orpheus and Eurydice, Gare du Nord
ECHO (2000)
GLOWING (2003)
RITUALS OF FAREWELL