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| '''Tomaž Šalamun''' is a ]n poet. He was born in ] in ], ], and raised in ], ]. He has published 30 collections of poetry in his native ]. Šalamun spent two years at the University of ] in the 1970s and has lived for periods of time in the ] since then. For a time, he served as Cultural Attaché to the Slovenian Embassy in ]. He has had four collections of poetry published in English: ''The Selected Poems of Tomaž Šalamun'' (Ecco Press, 1998); ''The Shepherd, the Hunter'' (Pedernal, 1992); ''The Four Questions of Melancholy'' (White Pine, 1997); and ''Feast'' (Harcourt Brace, 2000). He lives in ], Slovenia, and is married to the painter ]. | '''Tomaž Šalamun''' is a ]n poet. He was born in ] in ], ], and raised in ], ]. He has published 30 collections of poetry in his native ]. Šalamun spent two years at the University of ] in the 1970s and has lived for periods of time in the ] since then. For a time, he served as Cultural Attaché to the Slovenian Embassy in ]. He has had four collections of poetry published in ]: ''The Selected Poems of Tomaž Šalamun'' (Ecco Press, 1998); ''The Shepherd, the Hunter'' (Pedernal, 1992); ''The Four Questions of Melancholy'' (White Pine, 1997); and ''Feast'' (Harcourt Brace, 2000). He lives in ], Slovenia, and is married to the painter ]. | ||
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Tomaž Šalamun is a Slovenian poet. He was born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and raised in Koper, Slovenia. He has published 30 collections of poetry in his native Slovenian language. Šalamun spent two years at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in the 1970s and has lived for periods of time in the United States since then. For a time, he served as Cultural Attaché to the Slovenian Embassy in New York. He has had four collections of poetry published in English: The Selected Poems of Tomaž Šalamun (Ecco Press, 1998); The Shepherd, the Hunter (Pedernal, 1992); The Four Questions of Melancholy (White Pine, 1997); and Feast (Harcourt Brace, 2000). He lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is married to the painter Metka Krašovec.
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External links
- Tomaž Šalamun Official Home Page
- Guardian article on Salamun
- Salamun bio at Smith College Poetry Center
- 5 poems @ Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks
- My Tomaz Salamun by Travis Jeppesen
- Poems by Salamun @ Seconds: A Virtual Treasury of Verse