Homage to the Lame Wolf: Selected Poems

Vasko Popa, Charles Simic (Translated by), Charles Simic (Introduction by)

$15.70

Publication Date: June 5th, 1987

Publisher:

Oberlin College Press

ISBN:

9780932440228

Pages:

168

Description

Our first version of this selection from one of Eastern Europe's major figures sold out. The new version adds two sequences--"Give Me Back My Rage" and "Heaven's Ring"--as well as some previously unpublished sections of the justly famous series, "The Little Box." Simic and Popa are a perfect match. A book for surrealists, mythographers, postmodernists, scientists, and lovers of poetry and games. Winner of the PEN Translation Prize.

About the Author

CHARLES SIMIC, by virtue of his Yugoslav background and his position as a celebrated contemporary American poet, is ideally situated to be translator for Popa. His years of work on Popa have brought his versions to a pitch of perfection rarely achieved in