He was accused together with his parents, who were involved in helping Slovene political emigrants across the border to the West, of "organizing an underground anti-Communist opposition and of revealing state secrets" by the Titoist regime and was in 1949 sentenced to four years in prison, but was released after two years on probation while a high school student at the Classical Grammar School of Ljubljana.
During his study he also attended classes in ancient languages and learned Hebrew, and the basics of Sumerian and Akkadian.
[3] As a co-founder of the alternative journal Revija 57, he joined young Slovene intellectuals and dissidents challenging the cultural policies of the Titoist regime.
[2] In 1985, he was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to the United States, but decided to stay in Slovenia.
[5] His poems, exploring multiple universes, interconnected through a mysterious and magical fate, have been translated into English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Russian, Belarusian, Czech, Polish, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, Albanian, Turkish and Esperanto.