Vasko Popa: Complete Poems 1953-1987

Vasko Popa author Francis R Jones translator Anne Pennington translator Francis R Jones editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd

Published:27th Aug '11

Should be back in stock very soon

Vasko Popa: Complete Poems 1953-1987 cover

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.

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

ISBN: 9780856464348

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 38mm

Weight: 544g

488 pages

Revised, Enlarged ed.