"[A poet] sensitive to the enormity and complexity of our historical and intellectual predicament."―Charles Simic This staggering volume by a leading poet of Eastern Europe, acclaimed both at home and abroad, includes the entirety of Debeljak's two most recent collections, Unended and Under the Waterline (available for the first time in English) and selections from his groundbreaking earlier work. Ales Debeljak , recently Visiting Professor of International Studies at Northwestern University, lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Christopher Merrill directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.