Brane Mozetič Biography
Brane Mozetič is a poet, writer, translator and editor who graduated in comparative literature from the University of Ljubljana. He also pursued an advanced degree in comparative literature in Paris.
Since 1990, Mozetič has been the editor of gay magazine Revolver. He has translated a number of French authors, among which Rimbaud, Genet, Foucault, and Brossard, published ten poetry collections and three works of fiction, winning the City of Ljubljana Poetry Prize and the European Poetry Prize-Falgwe. His poems have been translated into various languages. Mozetič is currently the director of Center for Slovenian Literature. A poet who has not shied away from strict forms, Mozetič writes in a feverish style of the evanescent experience that is a poignant reflection of the postmodern condition and its narcissism.
Can you hear it, Dave, that noise outside. Maybe
it's a burglar. Or a bomb. Come on, wake up
Dave, maybe another war has broken out and we'll have
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Do you see fingers through the dark
do you feel how they stick to your
skin, how they shiver with untamed
...
Friday is the day you think of death. That's why
you have to go out, having had enough
of torment, masochism, constantly
...
it's midnight almost and I silently stare
into the blackness before me, no image of the
day left, no dream left of the night, pretty
...
loving you frightens me, you see,
not because I might fear death,
decay, damp earth, nor
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