
Vasko Popa
Vasko Popa(Author)
NYRB Poets (Publisher)
Published on 25. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-68137-336-2 (ISBN)
Description
An original collection of work by the great Serbian poet of the twentieth century.
Vasko Popa is widely recognized as one of the great poets of the twentieth century, a riddling fabulist, whose work, taking its bearings from the songs and folklore of his native his Serbia and from surrealism, has a dark gnomic fatalistic humor and pathos that are like nothing else. Charles Simic, a master of contemporary American poetry, has been translating Popa’s work for more than a quarter century. This revised and greatly expanded edition of Simic’s Popa is a revelation.
This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.
Vasko Popa is widely recognized as one of the great poets of the twentieth century, a riddling fabulist, whose work, taking its bearings from the songs and folklore of his native his Serbia and from surrealism, has a dark gnomic fatalistic humor and pathos that are like nothing else. Charles Simic, a master of contemporary American poetry, has been translating Popa’s work for more than a quarter century. This revised and greatly expanded edition of Simic’s Popa is a revelation.
This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
New York Review Books
Dimensions
Height: 173 mm
Width: 116 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
128 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68137-336-2 (9781681373362)
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Persons
Vasko Popa, Selected and translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Charles Simic
Content
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
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