Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic introduces and translates
one of Serbia's most important contemporary poets Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since
Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the
greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic continues
this work with his translations of one of today's finest Serbian
poets, Milan Djordjevic. An encounter between two poets and two
languages, this bilingual edition-the first selection of
Djordjevic's work to appear in English-features Simic's
translations and the Serbian originals on facing pages. Simic, a
native Serbian speaker, has selected some forty-five of
Djordjevic's best poems and provides an introduction in which he
discusses the poet's work, as well as the challenges of
translation. Djordjevic, who was born in Belgrade in 1954, is a
poet who gives equal weight to imagination and reality. This book
ranges across his entire career to date. His earliest poems can
deal with something as commonplace as a bulb of garlic, a potato,
or an overcoat fallen on the floor. Later poems, often dreamlike
and surreal, recount his travels in Germany, France, and England.
His recent poems are more autobiographical and realistic and
reflect a personal tragedy. Confined to his house after being hit
and nearly killed by a car while crossing a Belgrade street in
2007, the poet writes of his humble surroundings, the cats that
come to his door, the birds he sees through his window, and the
copies of one of his own books that he once burnt to keep warm.
Whatever their subject, Djordjevic's poems are beautiful, original,
and always lyrical.
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