Vasko Popa
Collected Poems
Published on 30. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-85646-268-9 (ISBN)
Description
Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart of Central Europe. His "Collected Poems" is an essential work of our time.
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'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 HughesMore details
Edition
Enlarged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Enlarged edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
571 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85646-268-9 (9780856462689)
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Persons
Vasko Popa (1922-91) was born in Vrsac in the Serbian Banat. He was elected to the Serbian Academy in 1972 and the Academie Mallarme in Paris in 1977. He lived in Belgrade where he worked as an editor for the publishers Nolit.Anne Pennington (1934-81) taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she was Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology.Francis R Jones has twice been awarded the European Poetry Translation Prize for his translations of Ivan V Lalic.