Poetry. Translated from the Serbian by Morton Marcus. Vasko Popa was one of the great post-World War II European poets. Buidling on surrealist fable and traditional folk-tales, personal anecdote and the tribal myths of his Serbian homeland, he created one of the most original poetries of the twentieth century. Cosmic in setting, his work seeks nothing less than taking the comic blunderings, tragic sufferings and senseless ironies of human experience and loosing them like endless dreams throughout an indifferent universe. "Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others"--Octavio Paz.