Prevod v izvirnik / Translation into the Original

With an expert introduction by Lora Tomaš, the collection is an important contribution not only to literary history, but also to the humanities.

Jack Gilbert (1925-2012) is one of the most important American poets of the second half of the 20th century. The two bilingual collections, which alongside the original offer the first translations of his poetry into Slovene and Croatian, comprise a selection of thirty-five poems that trace the poet's oeuvre from his first collection, Views of Jeopardy (1962), to his most recent, The Dance Most of All (2009). Gilbert has spent most of his life outside the USA, in Italy, England, France, Denmark, the Greek islands and Japan. At the intersection of autobiography, intellectual spaces and landscapes, Gilbert paints for us, in a precise poetic language, universal human feelings of love, loss and isolation, where the landscape and the things it describes become the poetic subject themselves, and the boundary between the human, the material and the immaterial is indeterminate and blurred.