Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjevic (Facing Pages): Selected Poems of Milan Djordjević: 3 - Hardcover

Djordjevic, Milan; Simic, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691142467 ISBN 13: 9780691142463

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Milan Djordjevic is one of finest Serbian poets. Djordjevic, who was born in Belgrade in 1954, is a poet who gives equal weight to imagination and reality. This title features some forty-five of Djordjevic's best poems and provides an introduction discussing the poet's work, as well as the challenges of translation.

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Review:

"Charles Simic's superbly able, balanced translations of the Serbian poet Milan Djordjevic are a double-revelation. Here stands Djordjevic, a new poet--dark, antic, and mournful--for English-language readers. And here, at the same time, is Simic, a familiar but ever more esteemed presence--mournful, antic, dark--standing in a bewitchingly altered light."--Nicholas Jenkins, Stanford University

"Charles Simic has translated the work of the major Serbian poet Milan Djordjevic into wonderful poems in English. From the opening poem we know we are in the hands of a master: Djordjevic keeps the stakes high as the poems fan out from the daily to the political and metaphysical. Image, tone, and metaphor combine to create an imaginatively striking voice. This is a distinguished translation by a distinguished poet."--Ira Sadoff, author of Barter: Poems

"I've read a lot of contemporary poetry in translation, but I have never read a poet quite like Milan Djordjevic. The poems Charles Simic translates here display a strange, engaging, and darkly playful imagination."--Jonathan Aaron, author of Journey to the Lost City: Poems

"Winner of the 2011 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America"

"Runner-Up for the 2011 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN American Center"

"Every now and then, words, quite often in the form of poetry, have the power, the persuasion, and the all-penetrative ability to stop one in ones' tracks. . . . Such is the possibility, the sheer scale of the penetrative persuasion amid some of these poems."---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews

"Charles Simic has been translating so many stimulating poets from the former Yugoslav republics for so long that I snatch up any new version by him as soon as it appears."---John Taylor, Antioch Review

About the Author:

Charles Simic is a poet, essayist, and translator who has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. From 2007 to 2008 he was U.S. Poet Laureate. A native Serbian speaker, he has published English translations of many poets from the former Yugoslavia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0691142467
• ISBN 13: 9780691142463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128