Dark Things
Published on 5. September 2016
96 pages
978-1-942683-26-1 (ISBN)
Description
Novica Tadic is Serbia's leading poet and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa. With this translation, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic brings the full range of Tadic's dark beauty to light:
I dream how on a flat surface I set down knives of various shapes and sizes. Already there are so many of them I can't count them, or see them all. Someone's being done in by those knives.
Novica Tadic has won most major Serbian literary awards, including the prestigious Laureat Nagrade. Charles Simic's latest poetry collection is That Little Something (Harcourt, 2008).
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Novica Tadic was born in 1949 and has lived most of his life in Belgrade. The author of fourteen previous collections of poetry, he is the most-respected living Serbian poet, and the linguistic "heir" to Vasko Popa. His collections include, The Object of Ridicule, Monster, and The Unknown. Tadic has won most major Serbian literary awards including the Laureat Nagrade. Poet, prose writer, editor, translator, anthologist, Charles Simic is acting Poet Laureate of the United States, and recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from The Academy of American Poets, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize, among others. His 29th poetry collection, That Little Something, was published by Harcourt in February 2008.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Coat of Many Colors
- Sun's Shame
- Conversation (1)
- Midnight Lady
- Dark Things
- Amidst The Noise
- About the Knife
- Whisk Broom 50
- Again That
- I Came Back from Work
- Armful of Twigs, Dream
- Night Passes
- While You Count the Stars
- Vampire
- Book Thief
- No One
- Hatred
- Fortune Teller Speaks
- Ten Fingers
- Someone Whispered to Me in a Dream
- Soldier's Song
- The Seventh Brother
- Stepmother
- About the Dead, Briefly
- He Needs
- Magpie the Witness
- Straitjacket
- City at Night
- Big Mud
- Return to B.
- Three-legged Bed
- Sheepskin Coat
- Knives, Dream
- If You Were to Get a Job
- You, Crooked One
- People Went By
- Monkey business
- You Are Mighty
- Spade
- Old Shoes
- On a Train Station, Dream
- I Fell Asleep So My Fear May Pass
- Something Ripened
- A Bird Started to Sing
- Out of Some Old Thing
- In Front of a Supermarket
- Rabbit
- Book, Dream
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About the Translator
- The Lannan Translations Selection Series
