Poetry Books by Vasko Popa

Vasko Popa Books, Vasko Popa poetry book Collected Poems Authors: Vasko Popa
Publisher: Anvil PressPoetry Limited
Published Date: 1997
Categories: Poetry
Vasko Popa (1922-91) was one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, his poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age. This authoritative edition of his work contains sixty new translations, giving us at last the complete body of Popa's published collections.

Vasko Popa Books, Vasko Popa poetry book Vasko Popa: Poems Authors: Vasko Popa
Publisher: NYRB Poets
Published Date: 2019-06-06
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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.



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