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Book SynopsisIvana Milankov is one of Serbia's best-known poets whose poems question themselves as much as they question the world around them. Distances in space and time are reduced to the size of a line break as the poet searches for meaning in experience; despite this, however, it is a surprisingly transparent poetry, where a world is created in each poem, holding our attention through an underlying drama of reason and feeling. Milankov's poetry allows us to glimpse a modernism that draws part of its reference from the presence of the Roman Empire and surrounding ancient civilisations of the Middle East. In this outstanding translation by Zorica Petrovic and James Sutherland-Smith, we are dazzled by an imagery whose structure and development confounds our expectations.
Table of ContentsIntroduction / 8, Hadrian, to a Likeness, Hidden / 15, An Extra Dimension / 17, Commands / 19, Exodus / 21, A Letter to the Provincial Governor / 23, Letters from Persia / 25, To an Unknown Nobleman / 27, The Tenth , I dare not say who that might be / 29, To John, in the Wilderness / 31, A Shadow Before my Body / 33, The Second Coming / 35, The Baltic Profile / 37, Visitor / 37, Noon in a Glass Bell / 39, A Glass Afternoon / 41, Glass Property / 43, Dinner with Fish and Mirrors / 45, Variation on a Theme / 47, Masquerade / 49, I Have Forebodings / 53, In the White Corners, while They Crucified Me / 55, No, it Wasn't Raining, Thus Spoke Cassandra / 57, Cassandra in a Garden with Orchids / 59, Requiem / 61, "My Cretan sisters" / 65, Arrival of the Twins / 67, To the Twin, the First Advice Not to Enter Twighlight And Plants / 69, The Tall Twin / 71, The Hallucinations of the God Hermes / 73, Maestro / 75, To One who is Leaving / 77, The World is Deep / 79, Somnambulist / 79, The Geography of Near Hope / 81, 36, the Richmond Bus / 83, Sorella Fiorentina / 87, Cleopatra, the Last Speech / 89, Call Me Atlantis / 91, In My Heart I Have the Spirit or How I Didn't Become Concrete / 93, Hadrian, to Sense and Form / 95, To a Geometry Teacher / 97, Paradise / 99, Biographical Notes / 101
