Ballad for Metka Krasovec is a central part of the work of Tomaz Salamun, since this is a compendium of his different styles and the most ambitious book he wrote. Thoughts about family, love, friendship and his own country are mixed with notes about his journeys around Mexico and the United States. If some say that Salamun's poetry expresses everything in every single way and in any possible tone, the reader can be sure that this is the most representative book of this style. Ballad for Metka Krasovec has been recognized unanimously as one of the most essential books of the European poetry in the last decades.