Popa, Vasko: Selected Poems

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Selected & translated by Charles Simic (New York Review Books, paperback) Publication Date: June 25, 2019 Publisher Marketing: An original collection of work by the great Serbian p oet 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. Show more