Barbara Korun

Korun’s work has been published in many anthologies and reviews, in twelve languages. She works on the editorial boards of the literary journals Apokalipsa and Nova Revija.

Iztok Osojnik, Ana Jelnikar

The elements of Barbara Korun’s poems are easily stated: light, earth, air, stars, the animal realm, her beloved karst landscape, the sovereign erotics of being human. What gives these poems their lift and savour, however, is not so easily named. Korun is both blunt and subtle, at once fantastically delicate and brutally direct as she confronts the terror and mystery and rough joys of being a mind incarnate – or, if you prefer, a thinking animal. Nobody now writing in English is as daring or clear-eyed about desire at the twin edges of meaning and fear. From the back cover of Songs of Earth and Light


Poems
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{id="5088" title="White Room"}
{id="5070" title="Lioness"}
{id="5090" title="Wolf"}
{id="5082" title="The Moon Will Cover Me"}
{id="5072" title="Mirror"}
{id="5076" title="Pythias"}
{id="5080" title="Soon"}
{id="5074" title="On a Black Summer’s Night"}
{id="5068" title="Kiss"}
{id="5084" title="Towers of Karst"}
{id="5060" title="Breathing Together"}
{id="5078" title="Sisyphus"}
{id="5056" title="Birth"}
{id="5058" title="Birth of an Angel"}
{id="5066" title="Every Breath You Take"}
{id="5086" title="Two Gods"}
{id="5062" title="Cold Fire"}