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Tomaž Šalamun

Poetry

Mar/Apr 2016

Zeus and Hera

By Tomaž Šalamun, translated by Brian Henry

From the Slovenian.   In antiquity the tendrils of a vine had symbolic meaning. They were the curls in Zeuss beard. Poseidon had to assemble his stool alone. He joked […]