- Publisher: ŠKUC
- Author: Uroš Prah
- Original title: Udor
»In Udor Prah has taken decisive steps into the poetics of the Anthropocene; in this sense, the collection is groundbreaking in the history of Slovenian literature. […] In it he connects deep time with human time, but he doesn’t stop there, he creates a new language for the destratification of the human into deep time.«
Branislava Vičar & Vesna Liponik: “Fault Networks: The Anthropocene in the Poetry of Uroš Prah”, Discussions on Contemporary Slovenian Literature, Journal for Slavic Stud- ies, Ljubljana 2021
»When Prah with his “turning in- and downwards” creates space, he is showing how the disintegration of the body is capable to remain within speech.«
Gabriela Babnik on Udor, Delo, Ljubljana 2020
»The poem “Modesty of Minorities” could easily be a motto of modern movements that continue to emancipate. […] It would certainly be a suitable cry to action for any minority under a dictatorship.”«
Uladzislaŭ Harbacki on Tišima, Makeout, Belarus 2020
»A poetry book of this kind can be at home anywhere, it drills, everywhere it exca- vates a kind of inverted soil. At the same time, it has no home and is always at home. This can be achieved in language; only in language, such a being-at-home can take place. And in this perspective, Tišima is a book of poetry par excellence.«
Muanis Sinanović on Tišima, Ljubljana 2016
Uroš Prah
Uroš Prah is a poet, editor, and translator. He pub- lished three poetry collections: Čezse polzeči. (“Glid- ing over Themselves”, 2012), the hardly translatable Tišima (one attempt was “Phush”, 2015), and Udor (“Landslide”, 2019). His German investigative long poem Nostra Silva was awarded the Austrian Exil Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the Simon Jenko and the Veronika Poetry awards. His poetry and essays have been published in Argentina, Aus- tria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Romania, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, and the USA. In recent years he was a resident writer in New York, Bucharest, Graz (Austria), and Larisa (Greece). In 2008 he co-founded the Ljubljana-based literary magazine ID- IOT, which he co-edited until 2016, and was the program director of Literodrom, the International Festival for Developing Literary Practices at the Cankar Hall in Ljublja- na. He is currently based in Vienna.
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