The Star Wizards Legacy Six Poetic Sequences by Vasko Popa and translated by Morton Marcus

This is poetry from Serbia and Montenegro.

The Star Wizards Legacy Six Poetic Sequences by Vasko Popa translated by Morton Marcus is published by White Pine Press (NY). This is a Book originally written in Serbian. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935210115E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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