Falling in love, more and more, with Vasko Popa. His selected, translated by Charles Simic, is terrific.
(Background Music: Jimmy Giuffre’s “Scootin’ About” & “Cry, Want.”)
Give Me Back My Rags by Vasko Popa
Posted byMarcus SleasePosted inNOMADIC SURREALISM, Surrealist PoetryTags:Charles Simic, NYRBPoets, Serbian Poetry, Serbian Surrealism, Vasko Popa
Published by Marcus Slease
Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Slease has made his home in such places as Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom – experiences that inform his nomadic surrealist writing. His latest book is Never Mind the Beasts (Dostoyevsky Wannabe 2020). View more posts
