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  <title><![CDATA[Four Questions of Melancholy: New &amp; Selected Poems (Terra Incognita Series)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tomaž Šalamun]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I agree with Jack that there are some great poems in here, especially the first one. Sometimes he drifts into a sort of hazy, syrupy surrealism for me though.  When his language is tight, he's terrific.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Can't go wrong with Šalamun. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[my favorite european poet. he is so surprising and uses little turns of phrase that will just blow your mind. he also talks about himself in the third person in his poems a lot, which you might think is gimmicky, but i can never get enough of.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Salamun is a master of the logical upturn, downturn, sideways life, etc.  He's confessional without being terrible.  Dramatic without calling a scene.  Etc.  Good stuff.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this guy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book has brought me to poetry in a different way than other Polish poets have. there is an edge to it that defies the melancholy of its title. must read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[David Hadbawnik generously handed this to me under the blue skies of Rust Belt Books . . . &amp; I'm happy he did . . . ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Masterful.  Quiet, passionate and intelligent.  Slowly savor his poems.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I learned from this book is everything.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, thank you Dr. Carney.]]></body>
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