Dark Things [Paperback]

Novica Tadic is Serbia’s leading poet and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa. With this translation, US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winner Charles Simic brings the full range of Tadic’s dark beauty to light:

I dream how on a flat surface
I set down knives of various
shapes and sizes.
Already there are so many of them
I can’t count them,
or see them all. Someone’s being done in
by those knives.

Novica Tadichas won most major Serbian literary awards, including the prestigious Laureat Nagrade.Charles Simic’s latest poetry collection isThat Little Something(Harcourt, 2008).

Novica Tadic was born in 1949 and has lived most of his life in Belgrade. The author of fourteen previous collections of poetry, he is the most-respected living Serbian poet, and the linguistic heir to Vasko Popa. His collections include, The Object of Ridicule, Monster, and The Unknown. Tadic has won most major Serbian literary awards including the Laureat Nagrade. Poet, prose writer, editor, translator, anthologist, Charles Simic is acting Poet Laureate of the United States, and recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from The Academy of American Poets, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize, among others. His 29th poetry collection, That Little Something, was published by Harcourt in February 2008.Author lives in Serbia. However, Charles Simic is in high demand and will promote the book at his own numerous appearances across the country.US Poet Laureate Charles Simic translates Serbia's leading poet Novica Tadic. Includes Introduction by Charles Simic.This is a new collection of poems by the leading living Serbian poet of our time – Novica Tadic. The 50 poems in this manuscript have been translated by Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who has born in Belgrade, and has been long considered America's leading translator of Eastern lã!