John Matthias Northern Summer Signed Lalic 1984 Poems Poetry
John Matthias NORTHERN SUMMER: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1984. Paperback, fine condition. Size: 21,4 x 13,7 cm. Pp. 222. Cover photograph by Diana Matthias. Photograph of John Matthias by Ingemar Leckius. The copy is inscribed by the author, to Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic: ‘’For Ivan and Branca / my all best wishes / and great pleasure in my / […] trip to Belgrade / from John / 16 October 1984’’ . For condition see photos/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. The present selection includes the three epistolary poems from Turns – hailed as ‘’major art’’ by Arthur Oberg in Western Humanities Review – as well as the long ‘’Poem for Cynouai’’ from Crossing, which extends and modifies their idiom. The book reprints entire ‘’the Stefan Batory Poems’’, written on a Polish liner while Matthias travelled to America after a year in England during the last stages of the Watergate controversy, along with three sections of ‘’The Mihail Lermontov Poems’’ , written two years later while returning on a Russian ship to 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.
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