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Vasko Popa: Complete Poems 1953-1987
Vasko Popa
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Description for Vasko Popa: Complete Poems 1953-1987
Paperback. Editor(s): Jones, Francis R. Translator(s): Pennington, Anne; Jones, Francis R. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 219 x 39. Weight in Grams: 610.
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. This new edition, based on the 1978 edition translated by the late Anne Pennington, revised and extended for the 1997 edition by Francis R. Jones, adds a dozen previously untranslated occasional poems.
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. This new edition, based on the 1978 edition translated by the late Anne Pennington, revised and extended for the 1997 edition by Francis R. Jones, adds a dozen previously untranslated occasional poems.
Product Details
Publisher
Anvil Press Poetry United Kingdom
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
610g
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856464348
SKU
V9780856464348
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About Vasko Popa
Vasko Popa (1922-91) was born in Grebenac in the Serbian Banat. He was elected to the Serbian Academy in 1972 and the Academie Mallarme 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. ... Read more
Reviews for Vasko Popa: Complete Poems 1953-1987
Popa's imaginative journey resembles a Universe passing through a Universe. It has been one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this journey being made Ted Hughes