World Literature Today, June 22nd, 1994
When Vasko Popa died in 1991, he was already recognized as one of the greatest and most original Serbian poets, a writer whose name was also considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although of mixed Serbian and Romanian parentage, he considered himself a Serbian poet and was active as such throughout his life.
Popa was not a prolific writer; he wrote only eight books of poetry, but his verse, as Anita Lekic points out in The Quest for Roots: The Poetry of Vasko Popa, "channeled the development of contemporary poetry in Serbia and Yugoslavia in a new direction." That new direction and ...
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