Poetry. Translated from the Slovenia by Elizabeta Zargi and Timothy Liu. Fifty powerful and unsettling untitled poems make up this mesmerizing collection by distinguished Slovenian writer Brane Mozetic. In these poems, Mozetic confronts meaninglessness and pleasure, melancholoy and excitement, often focusing on the pain we inflict on one another and especially on the pain we inflict on ourselves. Born in Ljubljana, Mozetic has published twelve volumes of poetry, two novels, and a short story collection. He has also edited three anthologies, and has translated numerous authors from the French including Rimbaud, Genet, Foucault, Guibert, Dustan, Cliff, and Brossard. For many years he has been active in civil social movements and leader of the gay movement in Slovenia; he directs two literary collections (Aleph and Lambda) and is director of the Center for Slovenian Literature. His books in English include the poetry collection BUTTERFLIES and the story collection PASSION, both available from Small Press Distribution.

'Lost Story,' a novel by gay Slovenian writer Brane Mozetic, translated by Erica Johnson Debeljak (Talisman) . . . [is] presented as the lost diary pages from a young hedonist describing the downward spiraling of his druggy club life. . . . it's given an Eastern Euro twist.

Fiction. LGBT Studies. Translated from the Slovenian by Tamara Soban. Celebrated author Brane Mozetič delivers a series of short stories aching with the sexuality and confusion of the modern experience. Mozetič, editor of the gay journal Revolver, has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Croatian and Spanish. This collection traces the geography of modern sexuality both devoid of affection or sentimentality and obsessed with issues of power and control.

Poetry. Translated from the Slovene by Ana Jelnikar. "Mozetic's verses here have caught the ephemeral nature of daily passion-- troubled desires pinned down, collected-- the wings of such specimens trembling under the poet's breathless breath"--Timothy Liu. Spare and delicate, these verses mingle sadness and desire, rendering "a remarkably dark and luminous book"--Nicole Brossard. Brane Mozetic is a poet, writer, translator and editor of a small press; he has published ten books of poetry and 3 works of fiction.

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Brane Mozetič's new book draws on his experiences as a gay man before and during the collapse of Yugoslavia and the creation of modern Slovenia. The liberation of the GLBT community and Slovenia parallel each other in this intense poetic record of, and meditation on, some of the major political and personal transformations that mark our time. "Sometimes I just want to squeeze the planet in my hands and see what squirts between my fingers. I read Brane Mozetič's poems which are tiny novels, so frail and strong and needy and stoic. They end like tiny movies with the one more thing that stops the trail, there's a chaos to his poems and a specificity like the exact details of our time and we only know it through rough gorgeous lines like these."--Eileen Myles "Addressing the turbulence of both collective history and the life of the individual, Brane Mozetič has wrought an aptly rough-edged poetry that achieves its best effects by grating on raw nerves. He doesn't hold back: each poem is like a stuffed sack, spilling its contents in the reader's path. Though they hurt the senses, we pick our way through them to a kind of understanding. This is powerful, intense writing."--Gregory Woods