Cukrarna
Former riverside sugar refinery turned vast contemporary art gallery, once home to modernist poets.
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This guide to Cukrarna in Ljubljana begins in the spring of eighteen ninety-nine, in a cheap room by the Ljubljanica where one young poet sits at the bedside of another. It reaches back to the sugar refinery, the fire and the barracks that came before, and to the circle of friends who were remaking Slovene poetry while living on almost nothing. Best heard from the river wall, facing the long rows of windows.
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