Tomaz Salamun

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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. 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 Krasovec.

[edit] External links

• Guardian article on Salamun
• Salamun bio at Smith College Poetry Center
• 5 poems @ Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks