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.

About the Author
Vasko Popa (1922-91) was born in Grebenac in the Serbian Banat. He was elected to the Serbian Academy in 1972 and the Academie Mallarme in Paris in 1977. He lived in Belgrade where he worked as an editor for the publishers Nolit. Anne Pennington (1934-81) taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she was Professor of Comparative Slavonic Philology. With Andrew Harvey she adapted Popa's anthology 'The Golden Apple' (1980; reissued 2010). Francis R. Jones is a senior lecturer at Newcastle University, where he teaches translation studies. He has twice been awarded the European Poetry Translation Prize for his translations of Ivan V. Lalic.

Reviews
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



Book Information
ISBN 9780856464348
Author Vasko Popa
Format Paperback
Page Count 488
Imprint Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 544g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 38mm