Homage to the Lame Wolf: Poems by Vasko Popa
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 The new version adds two sequences—"Give Me Back My Rage" and "Heaven's Ring"—as well as some previously unpublished sections of the justly famous series, "The Little Box."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...
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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 The new version adds two sequences—"Give Me Back My Rage" and "Heaven's Ring"—as well as some previously unpublished sections of the justly famous series, "The Little Box."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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780932440228 (0932440223)
Publish date: June 5th 1987
Publisher: Oberlin College Press
Pages no: 163
Edition language: English
It’s no exaggeration to say the Field Translation series is a gift to mankind, and "Homage to the Lame Wolf" is its pinnacle. These short poems are playful and dark. They have allure and power; they offer surprise and surreal pleasure. My favorites are the Little Box poems, childlike and vaginal, as...
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