A Suspect in the Eyes of Super-Patriots
Charles Simic: Vasko Popa, 18 March 1999
Collected Poems of Vasko Popa
translated by Anne Pennington.
Anvil, 464 pp., £12.95, January 1998,0 85646 268 3 Show More
translated by Anne Pennington.
Anvil, 464 pp., £12.95, January 1998,
“... object is to transmute matter into spirit. ‘Writing is primarily an experience of language,’ Robert Creeley said, and Popa reaches back to the folk tradition of riddles, charms, proverbs, nursery rhymes and exorcisms for clues about how to make poems. What he is after are the eyes and ears of the anonymous folk poet who could hear flowers ... ”