Zajc Dane:
Southern Dreams
A wind from the hollows
strikes against the wall
A call from inland
which darkly rustles
a call which beckons no one
awakens you
Outside the shore slices the sea
branches fly up and flee with a blast
of matter
You stand like a stone which breathes
a stone which listens with the heart of a living thing
Wind with a pocked forehead
with a face of low voices near the ground
mad southern dreams dryly burn
his eyes
In the silent sky
three white seagulls alight from three stars
and fly on motionless wings
to the east
Dane Zajc
(1929-2005) A poet, essayist, and playwright who, until his retirement, worked as a librarian in Ljubljana. Considered the doyen of postwar poets, he was active in the foundation of numerous literary magazines, including Review 57 (Revija 57), Problems (Problemi) and Perspectives (Perspektive), which he also edited. His lyrical poems displayed dark and depressing atmospheres, and were suffused with stark existentialist images which helped undermine the then-obligatory aesthetics of socialist realism. In the 1960s, with the advent of neoavant-garde writing, Zajc's poems won renewed appreciation and became part of the national canon. Zajc also writes for children (poems, prose and plays). He is best known, however, for his poetic plays, such as Children of the River (Otroka reke). A former Fulbright fellow at Columbia University in New York , he has seen the publication of his collected works in five volumes in 1990. Zajc received the Prešeren Prize for lifetime achievement in 1981.By the same author
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