The Little Box
Selected Poems
Vasko Popa(Author)
Sasha Dugdale(Editor)
Carcanet Classics (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-80017-218-0 (ISBN)
Description
Vasko Popa was one of Europe's most significant and exciting twentieth-century poets; a pre-war surrealist, the channelling of his experiences of war and imprisonment brought him to the forefront of a literary flowering in Yugoslavia. In poems of object and symbol he draws myth, folk belief, charms, riddles and spells into limpid conjunction, and his famous cycles of poems, such as The Quartz Pebble, are miniature epic works, each creating 'the terms of a universe'. He blends surrealism and an awareness of war and post-war experiences to create utterly distinctive and original poetry.
In 2022, the centenary of his birth, Carcanet is publishing a new Selected to introduce this poet, described by Ted Hughes as 'a Universe passing through a Universe', to a new generation of readers.
In 2022, the centenary of his birth, Carcanet is publishing a new Selected to introduce this poet, described by Ted Hughes as 'a Universe passing through a Universe', to a new generation of readers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
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Carcanet Press Ltd
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
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978-1-80017-218-0 (9781800172180)
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Vasko Popa (1922-1991) was born in the Banat district of Yugoslavia. During World War II he fought with a partisan group; afterwards he studied in Vienna and Bucharest before completing his education at the University of Belgrade. He was elected to the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1972 and to the Parisian Academie Mallarme in 1977. He visited Britain on several occasions, attending the London Poetry International and Cambridge Poetry Festivals. He was widely regarded not only as the greatest poet of the Serbo-Croat language but as a poet of towering European stature. He lived in Belgrade where he worked as an editor for the publishers Nolit from 1954 until 1979.
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