Book record
The Star Wizards Legacy Six Poetic Sequences
Vasko Popa
Translated from Serbian by Morton Marcus
The Star Wizards Legacy Six Poetic Sequences, by Vasko Popa, is a Serbian poetry collection from Serbia and Montenegro, translated by Morton Marcus, published by White Pine Press (NY) in 2010. It is a Serbian book of poetic sequences by Vasko Popa, one of the great myth-making figures of modern European poetry. The work matters because Popa can make folklore, object, spell, and riddle feel like parts of the same living machine. 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
- 2010
- Publisher
- White Pine Press (NY)
- Language
- Serbian
- Country
- Serbia and Montenegro
- ISBN
- 9781935210115