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Title:

The horse has six legs : an anthology of Serbian poetry / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Charles Simic.

Edition:

Updated and expanded.

Publisher:

Graywolf Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xix, 286 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Serbian poetry--20th century--Translations into English.

Other Authors:

Simic, Charles, 1938-

Notes:

Translated from Serbo-Croatian.

Contents:

Introduction to the updated and expanded edition (2010) -- Introduction to the original edition (1992) -- The message of King Sakis -- ORAL POETRY, WOMEN'S SONGS. Brotherless sisters -- The smallest basil leaf -- The sky is strewn with stars -- A girl threw an apple to a cloud -- There smoke, sooty smoke -- Plow, Maro, the plains -- Wind blows, one can smell the wild rosemary -- MOMCILO NASTASIJEVIC. To my dead sister -- Still trees -- Gray moment -- Roadside fountain -- Burial -- from Deaf Things -- The string -- ALEKSANDAR VUCO. from Cyril and Methodius -- DESANKA MAKSIMOVIC. Snake -- Darkness -- Bloody fable -- For Maria Magdalenes -- RADE DRAINAC. My hunger is infinite -- from Opus III -- Landsacpe -- Leaf -- from When the Poet without Lying Verses in His Heart Returns to His Native Country -- Classic verses -- VASKO POPA. from the cycle Games. Hide-and-seek -- Rose thieves -- Hunter -- Ashes -- from the cycle Yawn of Yawns. Forgetful number -- Proud error -- The tale about a tale -- Burning shewolf -- from the cycle The Little Box. The little box -- The admirers of the little box -- The craftsmen of the little box -- The owners of the little box -- The tenants of the little box -- The enemies of the little box -- The victims of the little box -- The judges of the little box -- The benefactors of the little box -- The prisoners of the little box -- Last news about the little box -- MIODRAG PAVLOVIC. Questionnaire of sleeplessness -- Morning inscription -- MILORAD PAVIC. Great Serbian migration 1690 -- from Holy Mass for Relja Krilatica -- Flying temple -- The swing over the calm source of our names -- IVAN V. LALIC. Love in July -- from Spring Liturgy for Branko Miljkovic -- Insomnia -- Roll call of mirrors -- Broadcast -- Voices of the dead -- Raven's monologue -- First actor to Hamlet -- Addressing the comet -- ALEKSANDAR RISTOVIC. Untitled -- The law -- Flirting with a pig -- Gingerbread heart -- Despair -- Old motif -- Outhouse -- Monastic outhouse -- Out in the open -- Maids -- About death and other things -- Dead leaves -- Strange students --
JOVAN HRISTIC. To Phaedrus -- That night they all gathered on the highest tower -- A sentimental voyage around my room -- Evening quiet -- The tragedy is over -- In the big library -- Barbarians -- In a dark hour -- BRANKO MILJKOVIC. Shepherd's flute -- Sun -- Ballade -- The sea before I start dreaming -- Black horseman -- Miners -- Agon -- from In Praise of Plants -- Sea without poets -- Sleepers -- Everyone will write poetry -- LJUBOMIR SIMOVIC. Epitaph -- One evening -- Traveling star -- Notation in gold -- Epitaphs from Karansko Cemetery -- Crucifixion -- Curses -- Breakfast -- IVAN GADJANSKI. Voyvodina -- MATIJA BECKOVIC. If I knew I'd bear myself proudly -- Two worlds -- No one will write poetry -- Yevtushenko -- LJILJANA DJURDJIC. Unfulfilled love -- Lucifer -- Bloe frog kisses my sweetheart -- I carry my black sheep back to her herd -- RA©♭SA LIVADA. Horoscope -- DU©♭SKO NOVAKOVIC. The kiosk was closed -- Hebraic -- An avalanche of quesitons -- Pimp -- Monster -- Breasts -- RADMILA LAZIC. Death sentences -- I'll laugh everywhere, weep where I can -- Sorry, My Lord -- Anthropomorphic wardrobe -- Evergreen -- I'll be a wicked old woman -- NOVICA TADIC. Toys, dream -- A feather plucked form the tail of the fiery hen -- Song to the lamb -- Antipsalm -- I ask -- Jesus -- Thief -- Nobody -- I run with a pair of compasses stuck in the back of my head -- The rose -- The fool -- Pocket watch -- Text, silk -- At the hairdresser -- The night game of the maker of faces -- Little picture catalogue -- Die -- Dark things -- Magpie the witness -- In a train station, dream
MILAN DJORDJEVIC. Overcoat -- Spud -- Silence and snow -- The rain wants to kill itself -- Love poem -- A man in a state of rebellion -- NINA ZIVANCEVIC. Florence -- Duende -- Kindergarten curse -- A poem with a tilde in the title -- Ode to Western wind -- Letter to Tsvetaeva -- DANICA VUKICEVIC. Ave -- Rocking -- Novica Zdravkovic was here -- O, I peeked out -- Twilight -- At the edge of the bed -- DRAGAN JOVANOVIC DANILOV. Room carried on wings -- Cursed city -- Two continents of skin -- Confiding to a shadow -- The key -- VOJISLAV KARANOVIC. Garden -- In the forest -- Choice -- I saw.

ISBN:

1555975577 (pbk.)
9781555975579 (pbk.)

LCCN:

2010920763

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)