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.