Vasko Popa

<b>An original collection of work by the great Serbian poet of the twentieth century.</b> <p/>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. <p/>This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.