John Matthias Turns 1975 Signed Ivan V Lalic London
John Matthias TURNS Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Size: 21,6 x 13,7 cm. Pp. 110. The copy is from library of Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic. Also, the copy is signed by the author. The cover is a slightly soiled and edges are a little yellowed. Minor spot on the cover. Otherwise, in very good condition. For condition and details see scans.
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John Matthias was (1941 – ) born in Columbus, Ohio. He is an American poet. He was awarded an Ingram Merrill grant in 1990 for work on ‘’A Compostela Diptych ‘’ , and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s George Bogin Memorial Award for the same. Matthias has also translated the work of several Swedish poets, including Jesper Svenbro, and the Serbian epic poem The Battle of Kosovo. From the ironies of the title poem John Matthias moves toward affirmation and the paradoxical sense of rootedness in a land not his own in the Epilogue, one of the three overlapping epistolary poems which explore his american background in the light of his life in England.
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Ivan V. Lalic (1931 – 1996) was one of the most significant Serbian poets writing after World War II with a reputation as one of the finest European poets of his time. Also one of the leading poets of contemporary neosymbolism poetry in Serbia. He had also been writing essays and literary critics and versifying English and French poetry into Serbian language. Lalic edited few antologies of poetry. He was sincerly appreciated among colleague poets of his time all over the world as it can be seen in many inscriptions wrote to him on books he received as sign of respect and appreciation.
