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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-10168137336X

ISBN-139781681373362

eBay Product ID (ePID)13038512523

Product Key Features

Book TitleVasko Popa

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, European / General, Subjects & Themes / General

Publication Year2019

GenrePoetry

AuthorVasko Popa

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight4.7 Oz

Item Length6.9 in

Item Width4.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2018-024064

Selected bySimic, Charles.

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"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

Dewey Decimal891.8215

Table Of ContentTABLE 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

SynopsisAn 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPG1419.26.O48A2 2018