"As Popa penetrates deeper into his
life, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe. It
is one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this
journey being made."—Ted Hughes
Building on surrealist fables and traditional folktales, personal anecdotes and the tribal myths of his Serbian homeland, Vasko Popa created one of the most original poetries of the twentieth century.
Building on surrealist fables and traditional folktales, personal anecdotes and the tribal myths of his Serbian homeland, Vasko Popa created one of the most original poetries of the twentieth century.
Product Details
- Series: Terra Incognita Series (Book 11)
- Paperback: 108 pages
- Publisher: White Pine Press; First Edition edition (April 1, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1935210114
- ISBN-13: 978-1935210115
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,044,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the Author
Vasko Popa (1922-91) was born in Vrsac in the Serbian Banat.
He was elected to the Serbian Academy in 1972 and the Académie Mallarmé
in Paris in 1977. He lived in Belgrade where he worked as an editor for
the publishers Nolit. Morton Marcus has published ten volumes of poetry
and one novel, including The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, Pages From A
Scrapbook of Immigrants, When People Could Fly, Moments Without Names:
New & Selected Prose Poems, Shouting Down The Silence: Verse Poems
1988-2001 and Pursuing The Dream Bone. His latest book is Striking
Through The Masks: A Literary Memoir.
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