Full Description
Ivana Milankov belongs to the first generation of poets from Central and Eastern Europe to be influenced by American anti-establishment poetry, including the Beat poets. Her own work, as a result, captures and rails against Serbia's rich historical and religious history. Hers is also an untiring effort to reach beyond the confines of the world towards mystical revelation, to communicate the incommunicable.
Translated by Zorica Petrovic & James Sutherland-Smith.
Ivana Milankov once translated the works of Allen Ginsberg on his tour of the former Yugoslavia, and subsequently worked with him in workshops in Colorado. She now works as an English teacher.
James Sutherland-Smith was born in Aberdeen, and has lived in Serbia since 2002. His own collections include In the Country of Birds (2003) and Popeye in Belgrade (2008), both published by Carcanet.
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Contents
Introduction / 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
