Biography EssayVasko Popa is a poet of towering stature in contemporary Yugoslav literature. His poetic achievement—eight slim volumes of verse written over a period of thirty-eight years—...
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Vasko Popa is a poet of towering stature in contemporary Yugoslav literature. His poetic achievement--eight slim volumes of verse written over a period of thirty-eight years--has received extensive cr...
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Critical Essay by Vasa D. Mihailovich
In the struggle against traditional verse-making, [Popa's] poetry, like that of Miodrag Pavlović, played a prominent role and contributed decisivel...
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Critical Essay by Charles Simic
Uspravna zemlja (The Vertical Earth) [or Earth Erect] is by far the most historical of Popa's books. As the first poem announces, it is a pilgrimage to the hist...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[Earth Erect] reproduces only four poems from the ample Penguin selection of Vasko Popa's work. These and thirty-two new translations are arrang...
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Critical Essay by Roger Garfitt
Vasko Popa's [Earth Erect is] based on themes from Serbian history and folklore…. A prevailing pattern is that the poems move to a point where a symbol c...
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Critical Essay by Vasa D. Mihailovich
The poems in [Vučja so, Živo meso, and Kuća nasred druma] were written during the last quarter-century, although most of them are of very re...
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Critical Essay by John Bayley
Popa's poetry [in his Collected Poems] is highly formalized. But it is not formalization in the senses of imagism or surrealism, though Popa … was finding ...
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Vasko Popa
Vasko Popa
Critical Essay by Vasa D. Mihailovich
