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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