A Suspect in the Eyes of Super-Patriots
Charles Simic: Vasko Popa, 18 March 1999
Collected Poems of Vasko Popa
translated by Anne Pennington.
Anvil, 464 pp., £12.95, January 1998,0 85646 268 3 Show More
translated by Anne Pennington.
Anvil, 464 pp., £12.95, January 1998,
“... who created something without precedent from a mix of native and foreign traditions. The poetry of Vasko Popa, who died in 1991, is of that eccentric company. He was the best-known Yugoslav poet of this century, and the most translated: his Selected Poems were first published by Penguin in 1969, as part of its series of modern European poets. ... ”