St. Mark's Church
131 E 10th St
212.674.0910
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Tomaž Šalamun
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Friday Sep 26, 2008 (10pm)
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$8
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Note: A chapbook featuring the work of all five poets in English translation is free with admission.
In a five-page diary entry, Franz Kafka ruminated on the virtues and pitfalls of authorship in undersized and overshadowed writing communities. The entry became the subject of a highly influential essay by lit-theory superduo Deleuze and Guattari as well as the foundation for an article by Milan Kundera, both which exposed the dilemma of authors caught in the confines of their own "minor" languages and literary histories. Tonight, that dilemma is reevaluated when the Poetry Project, in cooperation with Ugly Duckling Presse (Brooklyn) and Literatura Magazine (Ljubljana, Slovenia), hosts a reading of contemporary Slovene poetry featuring Primož Čučnik, Ana Pepelnik, Gregor Podlogar, Tomaž Šalamun, and Tone Skrjanec.
