| Author: | Vasko Popa, Charles Simic | ISBN: | 9781681373379 |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books | Publication: | June 25, 2019 |
| Imprint: | NYRB Poets | Language: | English |
| Author: | Vasko Popa, Charles Simic |
| ISBN: | 9781681373379 |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Publication: | June 25, 2019 |
| Imprint: | NYRB Poets |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
