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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Introduction
Poems: 
I.  White Pebble
II. Bone to Bone
III. Games
IV. Give me Back My Rags
V.  The Yawn of Yawns
VI.  Heaven’s Ring
VII. St. Sava’s Spring
VIII. Homage to the Lame Wolf
IX. Wolf’s Earth
X. The Little Box
XI. From RAW FLESH

Vasko Popa, Selected and translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Charles Simic