Charles Simic

1. Milan , Djordjevic

Oranges and Snow

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic introduces and translates one of Serbia's most important contemporary poetsPulitzer 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 Djordjevi¿. 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 Djordjevi¿'s best poems and provides an introduction in which he discusses the poet's work, as well as the challenges of translation.Djordjevi¿, 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, Djordjevi¿'s poems are beautiful, original, and always lyrical.

1. Charles Simic

Dat ongrijpbare iets

Amerikaanse 'Poet Laureate' eindelijk vertaald. Charles Simic (1938) werd in Belgrado geboren, waar hij tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog als kind de verschrikkingen heeft meegemaakt. Belgrado leed zwaar onder de Duitse bezetters. Tegelijk wierpen de geallieerden, als ze hun doelen in Duitsland hadden gebombardeerd, hun overtollige bommen boven dezelfde stad af, voordat ze op hun Italiaanse basis mochten landen. In 1954 emigreerde hij met zijn familie naar Chicago. Zijn oorlogservaringen kleuren Simic’ gehele, omvangrijke oeuvre: hij lijkt nauwelijks nog in staat naar de werkelijkheid te kijken zonder de oorlogsherinneringen uit zijn jeugd te herbeleven. Mede daardoor heeft zijn werk een grote actuele waarde behouden en – zeker nu – gekregen. ‘Misschien gaan we nog een keer maagden / Ophangen aan kale bomen, kerken plunderen, / Weduwen verkrachten in de diepe sneeuw?’ schreef hij in 1967. Hij kreeg talloze prestigieuze erkenningen voor zijn werk. Zijn laatste bundel, Come Closer and Listen, verscheen in de zomer van 2019 in de VS. Wiljan van den Akker koos en vertaalde de gedichten en korte prozafragmenten voor 'Dat ongrijpbare iets'.

1. Ivan V , Lalic

Roll Call of Mirrors

1. Charles , Simic

The Voice at 3

Charles Simic has been widely celebrated for his brilliant poetic imagery; his social, political, and moral alertness; his uncanny ability to make the ordinary extraordinary; and not least, a sardonic humor all his own. Gathering much of his material from the seemingly mundane minutia of contemporary American culture, Simic matches meditations on spiritual concerns and the weight of history with a nimble wit, shifting effortlessly to moments of clear vision and intense poetic revelation. The poems in this collection--spanning two decades of his work--present a rich and varied survey of a remarkable lyrical journey.

1. Charles , Simic

La vita delle immagini

È «come un tavolo sul quale disponiamo oggetti interessanti trovati durante una passeggiata: un ciottolo, un chiodo arrugginito, una radice dalla forma strana, l'angolo strappato di una fotografia»: così Simic spiega, nel saggio "Note su poesia e filosofia", da dove scaturisca la sua poesia, prima che il tempo e la riflessione intervengano a illuminare associazioni e significati. È la stessa poetica della giustapposizione impiegata nelle arti visive da Giorgio de Chirico e Joseph Cornell: una poetica talmente versatile da prestarsi anche alla forma saggistica, come dimostra questa raccolta di quarantuno prose - stralunate, indocili, nitide, sottili - scritte negli ultimi trent'anni, che spaziano dai ricordi di guerra alla lode della salsiccia, dall'elegia per una madrepatria in frantumi all'insofferenza verso la poesia bucolica, dal disprezzo per gli «specialisti dell'orgoglio etnico» a un'eclettica galleria di profili (Buster Keaton, Odilon Redon, Roberto Calasso, Emily Dickinson). Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

1. Aleksandar , Tisma
2. Charles , Simic
3. Michael Henry , Heim

The Book Of Blam

The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tišma's "extended kaddish . . . [his] masterpiece" (Kirkus Reviews), is a modern-day retelling of the book of Job. The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grün, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a stove fitter; and Arthur Spitzer, a grocer, who played amateur soccer and had non-Jewish friends; and Sándor Vértes, a lawyer who was a Communist. All dead. As are his younger sister and his best friend, a Serb, both of whom joined the resistance movement; and his mother and father in the infamous Novi Sad raid in January 1942-when the Hungarian Arrow Cross executed 1,400 Jews and Serbs on the banks of the Danube and tossed them into the river.Blam lives. The war he survived will never be over for him.