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by: Radmila Lazic
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.8216
EAN: 9781555973902
ISBN: 1555973906
Label: Graywolf Press
Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: November 01, 2003
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Sales Rank: 1416223
Studio: Graywolf Press
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Simic introduces and translates the poems of Serbian feminist, activist, and writer Radmila Lazic
Dead-born will be your wishes.
Your every hope will be a widow.
And as for love, there won't be enough
To spread on a slice of bread.
--from 'Twilight Metaphysics'
Translated and introduced with the surrealist wit that is Charles Simic's signature, A Wake for the Living offers American readers, for the first time in English, the brilliance of Serbian poet Radmila Lazic. Through her compelling and strange leaps and dodges, Lazic describes an identity-personal and political-informed by catastrophe and victimization that restlessly and imaginatively swerves into irreverence and often-comic absurdity. 'Goodness is boring,' she writes, 'It seems it's hell I'm getting myself ready for.' These poems careen from the poet's lament for beauty faded to her 'Dorothy Parker Blues' to her searching for names among obituaries to her sexual desires without obligation, with the virtuosity that has made her one of Eastern Europe's best and most vivacious contemporary poets.
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Rating: - Kindred Poets
I never expected to find a kindred spirit in Eastern Europe.
Radmila Lazic is a contemporary Serbian poet and the author of six poetry collections. She's edited two anthologies -- one of women's poetry, the other of anti-war letters -- and founded the journal, Profemina.
Until Nov. 23, 2003, I'd never heard of her.
Each year on my birthday, I go out to dinner, see a movie and buy a book of poetry. Finding the book is always my favorite activity. I enter the bookstore ... Read More
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