Tomaz Salamun is widely recognized as one of the leading Central European poets. He is the author of more than thirty collections of poetry in Slovenian, and has had books translated into most of the European languages. He lives in Ljubljana and occasionally teaches in the USA. His recent books in English are Row, Feast, A Ballad for Metka Krasovec, The Four Questions of Melancholy, Poker, Blackboards, and The Book for my Brother.