Monthly Archives: December 2013

Dragan Aleksić’s ZWISCHEN NERA UND KARASCH (Between the Nera and the Karash)

ZWISCHEN NERA UND KARASCH (Between the Nera and the Karash) By Dragan Aleksić Translated into German from Serbian by Mirjana and Klaus Wittmann Mattes & Seitz: Berlin 2013 Originally published as Između Nere i Karaša Narodna Knjiga-Alfa: Beograd, 2003 The … Continue reading

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Winter

 

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Solstice Beauty

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Alex Caldiero: Conceptual

In small black print at the bottom center of the inside back page of the slick white paper that envelopes the slightly smaller slick blue paper that bears the white words “this time they are clouds” above the center of … Continue reading

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Wasatch Labrador and Barbed Wire in Mid-December

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A Winter’s Tale

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Jelena Radovanovic: “Fratricidal”

I asked Zarko if he knew the poet Radmila Lazic, translated by Charles Simic (see earlier post) and he said he did know her and that she is an important poet of her generation (which would also be my generation). … Continue reading

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New Work by Nina Pops

Nina Pops sent me, this week, several photos of new work. The geometric forms are still evident, various and complicated and as simple as forms in the context of other forms can be. New is the cutout. Nina has put … Continue reading

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Late Last Night

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Charles Simic Translates Radmila Lazic

The current New York Review of Books includes Radmila Lazic’s “Psalm of Despair.” She was born the same year I was. I would like to write a poem about despair myself. On a long, dark, cold night it caught my … Continue reading

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