Aleksandar ristovic biography of mahatma

In reviewing Charles Simic&#;s latest collection for the New York Times, Katha Pollitt briefly (and importantly) mentions his work as a translator of Serbo-Croatian poets, including Vasko Popa and Ivan Lalic.

I adore Popa&#;s work, but am unfamiliar with Lalic&#;s, beyond the poems Simic included in his anthology of Serbian poets, The Horse Has Six Legs. Another star from this anthology, whose name I don&#;t often see mentioned (certainly not as frequently as Popa&#;s) is Aleksandar Ristovi??.

In his introduction to his translation of Ristovi??&#;s poems, Devil&#;s Lunch (published by Faber in ), Simic writes that &#;though Ristovi??

published many books of poetry and received three major literary prizes, he has continued to be undeservedly neglected in Yugoslavia.

Aleksandar ristovic biography of mahatma

Writers and poets are pack animals, and he, so it appears, did not have the usual ovine instincts. He simply did not belong to any literary movement or clique.&#; Born in Cacak in , Ristovi?? later moved to Belgrade,