#Vasko Popa

[majestativa]

You can shape me from my ashes. […] Kiss my echo.

— Vasko Popa, Selected Poems, transl by Anne Pennington, (1969)

#Serbian #Vasko Popa #Selected Poems #Anne Pennington #(1969)

[radomirus]

PUZAVICA

Najnežnija kći Zelenog podzemnog sunca Pobegla bi Iz bele brade zida Uspravila se nasred trga U svoj svojoj lepoti Zmijskom svojom igrom Vihore zanela Ali joj plećati vazduh Ruke ne pruža

#vasko popa #puzavica

[rokenrol]

Bez tvojih pogleda reka sam koju su napustile obale.

Vasko Popa

#vasko popa #poezija

[xoxojoka]

"Just cross my mind,

My thoughts will scratch your cheek

Just come into my sight

My eyes will bark at you

Just open your mouth

My silence will break your jaws

Just remind me of yourself

My remembering will dig up the ground beneath your feet

That's how far we've come."

— Vasko Popa, "Give Me Back My Rags"

#Poetry #Poem #Literature #Vasko Popa #serbian poet #serbian poetry #serbian literature #yugoslav poetry #Modern Serbian poetry #Modernism #Moderna #Art #Words

[tinyghosthands]

Vasko Popa, translated by Charles Simic

#poetry #Vasko Popa #Charles Simic #pebble

[love-n-purple]

Поглед би ми

У прашину закопали,

Ружу осмеха

Са усана ишчупали.

Чувам прво

Пролеће у грудима,

Чувам прву

Сузу радосницу.

Са слободом

Би ме развенчали,

Душу би ми

Душу преорали.

Браним

Ово небо у очима,

Браним

Ово земље на длану.

Младе би ми воћке

Радости посекли,

Славује песама

У дрвени плуг упрегли.

Не дам

Ово сунце у очима,

Не дам

Ово хлеба на длану.

„Браним” - Васко Попа

(1950)

#vasko popa

[shesadhernamewascinderella]

Idem

Od jedne ruke do druge

Gde si?

Zagrlio bih te

Grlim tvoju odsutnost

Poljubio bih ti glas

Čujem smeh daljina

Usne mi lice rastrgle

Iz presahlih dlanova

Blistava mi se pojavi

Hteo bih da te vidim

Pa oči zaklapam

Idem

Od jedne slepoočnice do druge

Gde si?

-Vasko Popa

#vasko popa #idem #poezija

[ma-pi-ma]

Per noi ora è facile Ci siamo liberati dalla carne Ora faremo quel che faremo Dimmi qualcosa Vuoi essere la spina dorsale della folgore Dimmi ancora qualcosa Che vuoi che ti dica Forse l’ osso iliaco della burrasca Dimmi qualcos’ altro Altro non so Forse la costola dei cieli Noi non siamo le ossa di nessuno Dimmi qualcos’ altro ancora.

Vasko Popa

#vasko popa

[manitat]

Vasko Popa

U SELU PRAOČEVA

Neko me grli

Neko me gleda vučjim očima

Neko skida šešir

Da ga bolje vidim

Svako me pita

Znaš li ko sam ti ja

Napoznati starci i starice

Prisvajaju imena

Mladića i devojaka iz mog sećanja

Pitam i ja jednog od njih

Živi li boga ti još

Georgije Kurja

To sam ja odgovara on

Glasom sa onoga sveta

Pomilujem mu dlanom obraz

I molim ga očima da mi kaže

Živim li još ja

#vasko popa #poezija #poetry

[heretocrioverfiction]

Kicked the earth's corner from you

Coiled my life's path around you

My overgrown impassable path

Now let's see you try to meet me

- Vasko Popa

#poems #vasko popa #poetry

[nsantand]

Vasko Popa – Na aldeia dos ancestrais

Alguém me abraça / Alguém me fita com olhos de lobo / Alguém tira o chapéu / Para que eu o veja melhor (...)

Na aldeia dos ancestrais Alguém me abraçaAlguém me fita com olhos de loboAlguém tira o chapéuPara que eu o veja melhorTodos me perguntamVocê sabe quem eu souVelhotes e velhotas desconhecidosApoderam-se dos nomesDe rapazes e garotas de minha lembrançaPergunto a um delesSe ainda está vivo o ricoGueórguie KúriaEu sou ele responde-meCom voz de outro mundo Acaricio-lhe a faceE com os olhos peço que…

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#Aleksandar Jovanovic #Vasko Popa

[majestativa]

Get out of my […] abyss.

— Vasko Popa, Selected Poems, transl by Anne Pennington, (1969)

#Serbian #Vasko Popa #Selected Poems #Anne Pennington #(1969) #Essence

[radomirus]

#vasko popa #posle pocetka

[hopernicus]

O descoperire

In revista Itaca, numarul 42, am dat de cateva poeme ale lui Charles Simic (Dusan Simic), poet nascut in Belgrad, stabilit in SUA in 1954 si emigrat in cer in 2023. Poemele din revista erau traduse de Laura Catalina Dragomir din Spania. Tot traducatoarea ne spune ca acesta ar fi ” un mostenitor direct al traditiei poetice a lui Vasko Popa”. Cum eu nu stiam nimic despre el am mai sapat putin si…

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#Charles Simic #Vasko Popa #Youtube

[lepartiprisdeschoses]

The little box works for you™️

#vasko popa #charles simic #poetry

[soracities]

what are your suggestions for starter poetry for people who dont have strong reading/analysis backgrounds

I've answered this a few times so I'm going to compile and expand them all into one post here.

I think if you haven't read much poetry before or aren't sure of your own tastes yet, then poetry anthologies are a great place to start: many of them will have a unifying theme so you can hone in based on a subject that interests you, or pick your way through something more general. I haven't read all of the ones below, but I have read most of them; the rest I came across in my own readings and added to my list either because I like the concept or am familiar with the editor(s) / their work:

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times (ed. Nick Astley) & Being Alive: The Sequel to Staying Alive (there's two more books in this series, but I'm recommending these two just because it's where I started)

The Rattlebag (ed. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes)

The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (ed. Ilya Kaminsky & Susan Harris)

The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson and Issa (ed. Robert Hass)

A Book of Luminous Things (ed. Czesław Miłosz )

Now and Then: The Poet's Choice Columns by Robert Hass (this may be a good place to start if you're also looking for commentary on the poems themselves)

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World(ed. Pádraig Ó'Tuama)

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (ed. Kevin Young)

The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing (ed. Kevin Young)

Lifelines: Letters from Famous People about their Favourite Poems

The following lists are authors I love in one regard or another and is a small mix of different styles / time periods which I think are still fairly accessible regardless of what your reading background is! It's be no means exhaustice but hopefully it gives you even just a small glimpse of the range that's available so you can branch off and explore for yourself if any particular work speaks to you.

But in any case, for individual collections, I would try:

anything by Sara Teasdale

Devotions / Wild Geese / Felicity by Mary Oliver

Selected Poems and Prose by Christina Rossetti

Collected Poems by Langston Hughes

Where the Sidewalk Endsby Shel Silverstein

Morning Haiku by Sonia Sanchez

Revolutionary Letters, Diane di Prima

Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved by Gregory Orr

Rose: Poems by Li-Young Lee

A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor / Barefoot Souls by Maram al-Masri

Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Tell Me: Poems / What is This Thing Called Love? by Kim Addonizio

The Trouble with Poetry by Billy Collins (Billy Collins is THE go-to for accessible / beginner poetry in my view so I think any of his collections would probably do)

Crush by Richard Siken

Rapture / The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail

Selected Poems by Walt Whitman

View with a Grain of Sand by Wislawa Szymborska

Collected Poems by Vasko Popa

Under Milkwood by Dylan Thomas (this is a play, but Thomas is a poet and the language & structure is definitely poetic to me)

Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada Limón

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire,

Nostalgia, My Enemy: Selected Poems by Saadi Youssef

As for individual poems:

“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

[Dear The Vatican] erasure poem by Pádraig Ó'Tuama // "The Pedagogy of Conflict"

"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith

"The Author Writes the First Draft of His Weddings Vows (An erasure of Virginia Woolf's suicide letter to her husband, Leonard)" by Hanif Abdurraqib

"I Can Tell You a Story" by Chuck Carlise

"The Sciences Sing a Lullabye" by Albert Goldbarth

"One Last Poem for Richard" by Sandra Cisneros

"We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky

“I’m Explaining a Few Things”by Pablo Neruda

"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" //"Nothing Gold Can Stay"//"Out, Out--" by Robert Frost

"Tablets: I // II // III"by Dunya Mikhail

"What Were They Like?" by Denise Levertov

"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden,

"The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider

“I, too” // "The Negro Speaks of Rivers” // "Harlem” // “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes

“The Mower” // "The Trees" // "High Windows" by Philip Larkin

“The Leash” // “Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance” // "Downhearted" by Ada Limón

“The Flea” by John Donne

"The Last Rose of Summer" by Thomas Moore

"Beauty" // "Please don't" // "How it Adds Up" by Tony Hoagland

“My Friend Yeshi” by Alice Walker

"De Humanis Corporis Fabrica"byJohn Burnside

“What Do Women Want?” // “For Desire” // "Stolen Moments" // "The Numbers" by Kim Addonizio

“Hummingbird” // "For Tess" by Raymond Carver

"The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin

“Bleecker Street, Summer” by Derek Walcott

“Dirge Without Music” // "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Digging” // “Mid-Term Break” // “The Rain Stick” // "Blackberry Picking" // "Twice Shy" by Seamus Heaney

“Dulce Et Decorum Est”by Wilfred Owen

“Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition”by Wislawa Szymborska

"Hour" //"Medusa" byCarol Ann Duffy

“The More Loving One” // “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden

“Small Kindnesses” // "Feeding the Worms" by Danusha Laméris

"Down by the Salley Gardens” // “The Stolen Child” by W.B. Yeats

"The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass

"The Last Love Letter from an Entymologist" by Jared Singer

"[i like my body when it is with your]" by e.e. cummings

"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski

"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje

"Last Night I Dreamed I Made Myself" by Paige Lewis

"A Dream Within a Dream" // "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe (highly recommend reading the last one out loud or listening to it recited)

"Ars Poetica?" // "Encounter" // "A Song on the End of the World"by Czeslaw Milosz

"Wandering Around an Albequerque Airport Terminal” // "Two Countries” // "Kindness” by Naoimi Shihab Nye

"Slow Dance” by Matthew Dickman

"The Archipelago of Kisses" // "The Quiet World" by Jeffrey McDaniel

"Mimesis" by Fady Joudah

"The Great Fires" // "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" // "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert

"The Mermaid" // "Virtuosi" by Lisel Mueller

"Macrophobia (Fear of Waiting)" by Jamaal May

"Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong" by Ocean Vuong

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

I would also recommend spending some times with essays, interviews, or other non-fiction, creative or otherwise (especially by other poets) if you want to broaden and improve how you read poetry; they can help give you a wider idea of the landscape behind and beyond the actual poems themselves, or even just let you acquaint yourself with how particular writers see and describe things in the world around them. The following are some of my favourites:

Upstream: Essays by Mary Oliver

"Theory and Play of the Duende" by Federico García Lorca

"The White Bird" and "Some Notes on Song" by John Berger

In That Great River: A Notebook by Anna Kamienska

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

"Of Strangeness That Wakes Us" and "Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky" by Ilya Kaminsky

"The Sentence is a Lonely Place" by Garielle Lutz

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon by Mark Doty

Paris, When It's Naked by Etel Adnan

#ask #anonymous #beginner guides