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Vasko Popa

Poetry

Anvil Press Poetry

`Earth Erect' is the most recent work by a major European poet, the Yugoslav Vasko Popa. Born in 1922 in Grebenac, Banat, Vasko Popa now lives in Belgrade where he works as editor for a publishing house. He has published four previous books of verse. His poetic achievement has been recognized by such major awards as the Austrian State Prize for Literature, and his poems have become well known in English translation through the publication of his `Selected Poems' (Penguin, 1969). Vasko Popa has twice appeared at the Poetry International festival in London, in 1969 and again in 1973. He also visited the International Writing Program at Iowa in 1970.  Ted Hughes writes of `Earth Erect': `This is a great celebration of Vasko Popa's national roots. His universal language of X-ray images works here as beautifully as ever. When the poetic texture of the verbal code is cancelled (though these are lucid, skilful translations) we are not left with rhetorical mysteries or waywardness. Instead, we have solid hieroglyphic objects, meaningful in a direct way, simultaneously solid and spiritual, plain-statement and visionary, reminiscent of Kekulé's whirling dream snake. It is unique art, and lucky with its translator.'

`Earth Erect' is the most recent work by a major European poet, the Yugoslav Vasko Popa. Born in 1922 in Grebenac, Banat, Vasko Popa now lives in Belgrade where he works as editor for a publishing house. He has published four previous books of verse. His poetic achievement has been recognized by such major awards as the Austrian State Prize for Literature, and his poems have become well known in English translation through the publication of his `Selected Poems' (Penguin, 1969). Vasko Popa has twice appeared at the Poetry International festival in London, in 1969 and again in 1973. He also visited the International Writing Program at Iowa in 1970. Ted Hughes writes of `Earth Erect': `This is a great celebration of Vasko Popa's national roots. His universal language of X-ray images works here as beautifully as ever. When the poetic texture of the verbal code is cancelled (though these are lucid, skilful translations) we are not left with rhetorical mysteries or waywardness. Instead, we have solid hieroglyphic objects, meaningful in a direct way, simultaneously solid and spiritual, plain-statement and visionary, reminiscent of Kekulé's whirling dream snake. It is unique art, and lucky with its translator.'

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: Collected Poems

Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart of Central Europe. His Collected Poems is an essential work of our time. 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. Anne Pennington (1934-81) taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she was Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology. Francis R Jones has twice been awarded the European Poetry Translation Prize for his translations of Ivan V Lalic.

Carcanet Press Ltd.

Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa’s poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart of Central Europe. His Complete Poems is an essential work of our time.

Collected poems (The Persea series of poetry in translation)

Persea Books

Vasko Popa, the most important living Yugoslav poet, is presented here in a book-length American translation for the first time. His poetry has received wide international recognition and has been translated into almost every European language. The poems in this selection cover his career from the mid-1950s to the present. Popa lives and works in Belgrade.

Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems, 1956-1975 (Field Translation)

Oberlin College

<p>Our first version of this selection from one of Eastern Europe's major figures sold out. The new version adds two sequences--"Give Me Back My Rage" and "Heaven's Ring"--as well as some previously unpublished sections of the justly famous series, "The Little Box." Simic and Popa are a perfect match. A book for surrealists, mythographers, postmodernists, scientists, and lovers of poetry and games. Winner of the PEN Translation Prize.</p>

Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems

Oberlin College Press

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Vasko Popa: Collected Poems

Vasko Popa: Collected Poems

Collected poems (The Persea series of poetry in translation)

Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems, 1956-1975 (Field Translation)

Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems