 Taufer's poetry of the 70s and 80s has entered the canon of modern Slovenian literature.His "Songbook of Used Words" ("Pesmarica rabljenih besed"), published 1975, was conceived as a collection of contemporary variations on Slovene folk songs (especially ballads), and was declared by the philosopher and critic Tine Hribar as the first post-modern work in Slovenian literature.Taufer's next collection, "The Management of Nails" ("Ravnanje žebljev"), published 1979, was partly an exercise in linguistic experimentation.