Voice of the lyrical Subject in the first poetry Books of Tomaž Šalamun

Abstract

The topic of the article is the phenomena of the lyrical subject in the first poetry books of Slovene poet Tomaž Šalamun: Poker and Romanje za Maruško.Tomaž Šalamun was a leading figure of post-war neoavantgarde poetry. His first poetry book, which appeared in 1966 in a samizdat edition, full of absurdist irreverence, playfulness, and wild abandon, was also very autobiographical.

Later his voice was just organising the abruption of his associations: the imagination of the authorwas influenced by different authors and different cultures.

Keywords

• poetry of Tomaž Šalamun
• lyrical subject in the poetry
• Slovene post-war poetry
• neoavantgarde in Slovene poetry