Roll Call of Mirrors: Selected Poems of Ivan V. Lalic

by Ivan V. Lalić

Book Overview

A postwar Serbian poet captures the spirit of the classical in his newly translated book of poems.

Ivan V. Lalic is one of the most important Serbian poets of the postwar generation. In Roll Call of Mirrors the translator Charles Simic, a native Yugoslavian, captures these poems in Lalic's own idiom, He retains their spare beauty, from the lyrical intensity of the early poems - by a poet "destined to burn" - to his later love of sonnets,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819511528
• ISBN13: 9780819511522
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up