Zajc Dane:
White
outside painted light
like a wall stands before our eyes
outside hearing feeling and taste
you are
when we meet our steps become confused
our eyes rotate in their sockets
our thoughts are a fist full of dry grass
and we know: our path is bewitched
our path is mistaken is lost our path
for an instant the place is illuminated
white invisible yet seen
you are
soon soon we will leave
the world of sounds colors and tastes
soon only raindrops among other raindrops
without sound without feeling
like drops we will fall
on our own dispossessed bones
soon
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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