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Vasko Popa

1922–1991

Poems
32
Reader comments
12
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Vasko Popa 1922–1991
1922Born

Biography

Vasko Popa was a Serbian poet, born in June 29, 1922, in Grebenac, Serbia, and died Jan. 5, 1991, in Belgrade. He wrote in a succinct modernist style that owed more to French surrealism and Serbian folk traditions than to the Socialist Realism that dominated Eastern European literature after World War II.

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  1. On A Forgetful Number

    “I am also doing Dance and I have found for A Forgetful Number that Vasko Popa is from Serbia. The borders of the state kept changing ie the "subtracting and adding" (taking away borders and then adding them) He was in the army. It could be his personal view from being in the army. When in the Army…”

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  1. A Forgetful Number11 comments
  2. In The Village Of My Ancestors1 comment

All 32 poems

Bark · 1953 · 7 poems
  1. Far Within Us #1
  2. Far Within Us #2
  3. Far Within Us #3
  4. Far Within Us #4
  5. Far Within Us #5
  6. Far Within Us #6
  7. Far Within Us #7
Unrest-Field · 1956 · 5 poems
  1. Give Me Back My Rags
  2. Give Me Back My Rags #1
  3. Give Me Back My Rags #11
  4. Give Me Back My Rags #12
  5. Give Me Back My Rags #4
Homage to the Lame Wolf · 1987 · 17 poems
  1. In The Village Of My Ancestors1
  2. Last News About The Little Box
  3. Race
  4. The Admirers Of The Little Box
  5. The Benefactors Of The Little Box
  6. The Craftsmen Of The Little Box
  7. The Enemies Of The Little Box
  8. The Judges Of The Little Box
  9. The Little Box
  10. The Owners Of The Little Box
  11. The Prisoners Of The Little Box
  12. The Tenants Of The Little Box
  13. The Victims Of The Little Box
  14. Before The Game
  15. Between Games
  16. Hide-And-Seek
  17. Wedding
Other poems · 3
  1. Anne Pennington5
  2. A Conceited Mistake1968
  3. A Forgetful Number196811