Book record
Dark Things
Novica Tadić
Translated from Serbian by Charles Simic
Dark Things, by Novica Tadić, is a Serbian poetry collection from Serbia and Montenegro, translated by Charles Simic, published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in 2009. It is a Serbian collection translated by Charles Simic, carrying a compressed, shadowed imagination. The book belongs to readers drawn to short, darkly lit poems where the ordinary object has already started becoming an omen. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Serbia and Montenegro; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Ltd.
- Language
- Serbian
- Country
- Serbia and Montenegro
- ISBN
- 9781934414231