Tomaž Šalamun (Zagreb, 1941): Art historian, Slovene and American poet, member of the Slovene Academy of Arts and Sciences, a conceptual artist member of the group OHO. He is an author of 38 poetry collections; is included in many rele- vant poetry anthologies of the contemporary Slovene and American poetry. He is translated into more than 30 languages. He joined the group OHO in 1967 directing its activity in the visual area toward the aesthetic of the Arte Provera movement and contributing with his installations and performances that used the everyday, often rejected materials and objects. His poetry criticizes the hypocrisy, careerism, and emptiness of the intellectuals, as well as the power abuses of state. Since 1963 he published poems in the journal Perspectives, which at the beginning of the 60’s was the most inluential cultural journal in Slovenia. he text published in the journal was often critical of the communist party so it was often on the brink of banishment. Aged 22, together with Rastko Mošnik, is the managing editor of the journal. In 1964 the journal is permanently banned because of an article from dissident and one of the early champions of Slovenian independence Jože Pučnik. Šalamun was additionally in trouble because of his poem Duma (hought, 1964), which criticised the current political situation in Slovenia. Facing possible prison term, having spent ive days in jail, due to the signiicant pressure from the foreign press (New York Times, Corriere della Sera, Le Monde), Šalamun was quickly released. According to the author, with its student rebellion and the government in crisis, Slovenia had had its 1968 already in 1964.