Novica Tadić
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Novica Tadić (1949, Belgrade) is one of the most respected Yugoslavian poets of his generation. He was born in 1949 in a small village in Montenegro and has lived most of his life in Belgrade. His collections include Presences, Death in a Chair, Maw, Fiery Hen, Foul Language, The Object of Ridicule, Street, Sparrow Hawk and others. Vasko Popa is the only other recent serbian poet who nears his magnificence. His work has been supported by many United States poets including Charles Simic, who translated Night Mail: Selected Poems, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Hoover, David Baratier and Andrei Codrescu.
[edit] Poems
- I put myself at back...
- I put myself at back all admirable and too admirable things
- On my life a mud of flowers is posed.
- I die in silence, lying close to a wall.
- In my dream, cherubs intertwine me, of the child-spirits.
- A light falls between the curtains, on the yellow floor.
- Formerly, I nourished monsters, I were a worker, I were malicious,
- Everywhere I went serrier and smuggling something of terrible and original.
- I was sinning; I am now resigned.
- My conscience is smooth, and black also, and serene.
- I know now that God did not die; God is hungry.
- When it comes, it will eat mushrooms on the table of the Earth.
- Finally it will hear the bleat of the divine herd.
- In its escape, the soleile will raise its dress of lady.
- Each Me will disappear as a spark in ash.
- It will be a burst of laughter made cries of dying.
- Died and alive will mix their crinères in hennissement foolish.
- The books will be reduced to a single letter and - closed.
- The Almighty will laiserra to fall the universe with his emaciated hands,
- Like the card deck, after an exhausting part.
- Come, and see like, of the days during, against the wall I am lying.
- Again the walls will be done black and infinite.
- And any residence, an obscure cave, without fire.
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[edit] References
[edit] Further reading
- Charles Simic, Novica Tadic (1992). Night Mail: Selected Poems. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 0932440592. [1]
- Charles Simic (1992). The Horse Has Six Legs: An Anthology of Serbian Poetry. Graywolf Press. ISBN 1555971652. [2]
