Dark Things

Novica Tadic is Serbia's leading poet and the linguisticheir to Vasko Popa. With this translation, US Poet Laureate and PulitzerPrizewinner Charles Simic brings the full range of Tadic's dark beauty tolight: I dream how on a flat surface, I set down knives of various shapes andsizes. Already there are so many of them I can't count them, or see them all.Someone's being done in by those knives. Novica Tadic has won most majorSerbian literary awards, including the prestigious Laureat Nagrade. CharlesSimic's latest poetry collection is That Little Something (Harcourt, 2008).