Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 Book

	Introduction	11
	Essays
	Slovenia: A Brief Literary History	21
	Melancholy Meditations on Slovenian Literature	41
	On Poetry	45
	Excerpts from Pilgrim Among the Shadows	53
	Excerpts from "Memories of Yugoslavia"	61
	The Summer Battle	79
	Poetry
	The Lippizaners	89
	Song About Man	92
	Slovenian Hymn	94
	Hands	96
	Into the Dark	97
	Who Am I?	98
	My Life	99
	The Time of Poems	101
	"We walk, exhausted and dimly changed"	102
	And Yet	103
	Little Night Music	104
	The Boat	105
	November	106
	Image of an Unreal Place - A Sketch	107
	You Are Not	108
	Rain	110
	Dead Things	111
	Dead Pines	112
	From Two	113
	There Was a Tiger Here	114
	Snow	117
	From The Inferno: Part II - The Mountain	118
	A poem	120
	Dead Soldiers' Autumn	121
	Garden of Gold	122
	Rain	123
	Labrador	124
	The Fish Faronika Carries the World on Her Back	125
	The Kangaroo	126
	Into Your Eye	127
	Wind	128
	Anthill	129
	The Snake	130
	Fatigue	132
	I Am	133
	The House	134
	History	135
	Jonah	136
	Folk Song	137
	Death's Window	138
	Red Cliff	139
	I and Thou	140
	Versailles	141
	Kiss the Eyes of Peace	142
	There is Still No Name for You	143
	Anaximander is Measuring	144
	Anaximander is Dreaming	145
	The Origin of Language	146
	Limping Sonnet	147
	From Volfram	148
	Uni-verse	154
	Interior	155
	Exile	156
	Living Shadow	157
	From Silk and Flax	158
	Hasanaginica	162
	Quadruple Voices: Quadrophenia	163
	Strung Seeds	164
	Barefoot March	165
	Nothing Remains	166
	My Cautious Coming	167
	There Are Days	168
	Elegies from the North I	169
	Elegies from the North II	170
	Elegies from the North V	171
	Late Evening Light VII	172
	A River and a Young Woman V	173
	Ways of Saying Goodbye VI	174
	Empty Rooms V	175
	Fiction
	An excerpt from A Day in Spring	179
	An excerpt from Minuet for the Guitar	187
	An excerpt from The Great Bear	196
	An excerpt from Filio is Not at Home	210
	Billie Holiday	226
	Notes on the Contributors	233