Barren Harvest, Dane Zajc

(White Pine Press, 2004)

Barren Harvest is the first book length collection of poetry by Dane Zajc, one of Slovenia’s most important poets, available in English.  The selection spans some forty years of disturbing, incantory, and powerful work by this great Slovenian poet.  “The translator, Erica Johnson Debeljak, captures the repetition of syntax and imagery in these translations to help preserve the rhythmic qualities of the original Slovene,” says reviewer Briget Bates in the November 17, 2004 issue of Verse Magazine.