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 comes into its own, establishing its truth within the surface reality. 'The Blackbird's Field', for instance, begins as
A field like any other
a hand and a half of green
and ends as
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