Cloud Clad Angel: Selected Poems, a Bilingual Serbian and English Edition

Cloud-Clad Angel is Vera Srbinovic's critically acclaimed collection of poems, which was first published in a bilingual English Serbian edition in 2008 and is now being released for the first time internationally. Since her debut in 1961 with Unlocked Gates, she has authored 21 other collections of poetry, including Wings of Destiny, Pomegranate Rubies, and The Dream of Byzantium. "Vera Srbinovic has consistently, for decades, created verses that make her unique among modern European poets." -from the Introduction, by Dr. Drashko Redjep, leading Serbian literary critic and writer "Her poems are Pushkinesque, warm and tender." -Zoran Radisavlevic, in the Belgrade daily Politika "Vera Srbinovic evokes the reminiscence of past civilizations in her own style, very pertinent to poetic imagination." -Dragomir Brajkovic, Serbian poet "Her poems seem to be sprinkled with gold-dust." -Snezana Lukic, in the Belgrade art magazine Bazar VERA SRBINOVIĆ was born in Belgrade. After studying English and literature at the University of Belgrade, she went abroad and has lived in The Hague, The Netherlands since 1963. She was awarded the Milica Stojadinovic Srpkinja prize for poetry in 2002 (Novi Sad, Serbia), and the Rastko Petrovic literary prize in 2005 (Belgrade, Serbia).

Author: Vera Srbinovi

Publisher: Cosimo

Publication Date: Aug 01, 2010

Number of Pages: 92 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1616403721

ISBN-13: 9781616403720