C(O)Urt Interpretations

Poetry. Translated from the Slovenian by Manja Maksimovic. C(O)URT INTERPRETATIONS is the first full-length collection by one of Slovenia's most provocative young poets, Ales Mustar. In Mustar's court, consumerism stands on trial alongside "post-post-modernism" and Dostoevsky. With his witty philosophical riffing on the trappings and evasions of contemporary society, Mustar sharply demonstrates what it means to poeticize with a gavel. Ales Mustar was born in 1968 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His poetry has been published in the most important Slovenian literary magazines, and has been translated into Czech, Serbian, Polish, Macedonian, English, and Romanian. He holds degrees in English and Pedagogy from the University of Ljubljana and a Ph.D. in Romanian literature from the University of Bucharest. Mustar has also written for the theater, and is a translator of Romanian and Macedonian literature.