An original collection of work by the great Serbian poet of the twentieth century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Poems:
I. White Pebble
II. Bone to Bone
III. Games
IV. Give me Back My Rags
V. The Yawn of Yawns
VI. Heaven’s Ring
VII. St. Sava’s Spring
VIII. Homage to the Lame Wolf
IX. Wolf’s Earth
X. The Little Box
XI. From RAW FLESH
Vasko Popa (1922-1991) was born in the Banat region of Northern
Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia. During World War II, he joined the
Communist underground and was imprisoned in a German concentration
camp at Bečkerek. After the war, he graduated from Belgrade
University and published his first collection, Kora (Bark) in 1953,
the first of his eight books. He came to be known as the most
famous Yugoslav poet of the 20th century, as well as the most
translated.
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published
some twenty collections of poetry, six books of essays, a memoir,
and numerous translations. He is the recipient of many awards,
including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a
MacArthur Fellowship. In 2007 Simic was appointed the fifteenth
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His
most recent collection is Scribbled in the Dark- Poems (2017).
“Popa’s imaginative journey resembles a Universe passing through a
Universe. It has been one of the most exciting things in modern
poetry, to watch this journey being made.” —Ted Hughes
“The symbolist poetry of Mr. Popa, a modernist, was widely hailed
as the finest in the Serbian language and an artful mix of folk
poetry and surrealism. His language was succinct, often aphoristic
and elliptical, and it focused on the specific over the abstract.”
—The New York Times
"No other Serbian poet sounds like Popa. He was both the product of
his time and place and the inventor of his own world." —London
Review of Books
"A poet of genuine vision." —Kirkus
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