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Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjevic
Milan Djordjevic
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Hardback. Milan Djordjevic is one of finest Serbian poets. Djordjevic, who was born in Belgrade in 1954, is a poet who gives equal weight to imagination and reality. This title features some forty-five of Djordjevic's best poems and provides an introduction discussing the poet's work, as well as the challenges of translation. Series: Facing Pages. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of one of today's finest Serbian poets, Milan Djordjevic. An encounter between two poets and two languages, this bilingual edition--the first selection of Djordjevic's work to appear in English--features Simic's translations and the Serbian originals on facing pages. Simic, a native Serbian speaker, has selected some forty-five of Djordjevic's best poems and provides an introduction in which he discusses the poet's work, as well as the ... Read more
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues this work with his translations of one of today's finest Serbian poets, Milan Djordjevic. An encounter between two poets and two languages, this bilingual edition--the first selection of Djordjevic's work to appear in English--features Simic's translations and the Serbian originals on facing pages. Simic, a native Serbian speaker, has selected some forty-five of Djordjevic's best poems and provides an introduction in which he discusses the poet's work, as well as the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Facing Pages
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691142463
SKU
V9780691142463
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About Milan Djordjevic
Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator who has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. From 2007 to 2008 he was U.S. Poet Laureate. A native Serbian speaker, he has published English translations of many poets from the former Yugoslavia.
Reviews for Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjevic
Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center "Every now and then, words, quite often in the form of poetry, have the power, the persuasion, and the all-penetrative ability to stop one in ones' tracks... Such is the possibility, the sheer scale of the ... Read more