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Tables of Contents for Collected Poems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Preface
xix
Introduction
xxi
Translator's Preface
xxxi
Anne Pennington (1981)
xxxiii
BARK (1953)
Besieged Serenity
Acquaintance
3
1
Conversation
4
1
The Iron Apple Tree
5
2
Echo
7
1
Departure
8
1
Journey
9
2
Landscapes
In the Ashtray
11
1
In a Sigh
12
1
On the Table
13
1
In a Groan
14
1
On the Hatstand
15
1
In Forgetting
16
1
On the Wall
17
1
On the Hand
18
1
In a Smile
19
2
List
Duck
21
1
Horse
22
1
Donkey
23
1
Pig
24
1
Hen
25
1
Dandelion
26
1
Chestnut Tree
27
1
Creeper
28
1
Moss
29
1
Cactus
30
1
Potato
31
1
Chair
32
1
Plate
33
1
Paper
34
1
Quartz Pebble
35
2
Far Within Us
We raise our arms
37
1
Look here's that uninvited
38
1
Unquiet you walk
39
1
Green gloves rustle
40
1
The nights are running out of darkness
41
1
From the wrinkle between my brows
42
1
Toothed eyes fly
43
1
At the crossroads
44
1
Venomous green
45
1
How with these buttons of bronze
46
1
The house have turned out
47
1
Murky passages flow
48
1
The pillars supporting heaven crumble
49
1
If it were not for your eyes
50
1
The streets of your glances
51
1
You put a decent light on
52
1
I would sleep in the sea
53
1
I carry you
54
1
Our youth is in leaf
55
1
Birds drink living water
56
1
Your hands glow on the hearth
57
1
Our day is a green apple
58
2
Without your glances I am a river
60
1
I go
61
1
I am the yellow floor
62
1
In this morningless night
63
1
Between my palms
64
1
Beneath your eyelids
65
1
These are your lips
66
1
I peel the dusk from my body
67
4
UNREST-FIELD (1956)
Games
Before Play
71
1
The Nail
72
1
Hide-and-Seek
73
1
The Seducer
74
1
The Wedding
75
1
The Rose-Thieves
76
1
Between Games
77
2
He
79
1
The Seed
80
1
Leapfrog
81
1
The Hunter
82
1
Ashes
83
1
After Play
84
1
Bone to Bone
At the Beginning
85
1
After the Beginning
86
1
In the Sun
87
1
Underground
88
1
In the Moonlight
89
1
Before the End
90
1
At the End
91
3
Give Me Back My Rags
Just come to my mind
93
1
Give me back my rags
94
1
Listen you monster
95
1
I won't carry you pick-a-back
96
1
Get out of my walled infinity
97
1
You get harebrained puppets
98
1
Damn your root and blood and crown
99
1
What about my rags
100
1
And you want us to love one another
101
1
Flee monster
102
1
Black be your tongue black your noon black your hope
103
1
I've wiped your face off my face
104
1
Enough chattering violets enough sweet trash
105
1
Don't try your tricks monster
106
1
The Quartz Pebble
Quartz Pebble
107
1
The Heart of the Quartz Pebble
108
1
The Dream of the Quartz Pebble
109
1
The Love of the Quartz Pebble
110
1
The Adventure of the Quartz Pebble
111
1
The Secret of the Quartz Pebble
112
1
Two Quartz Pebbles
113
4
SECONDARY HEAVEN (1968)
Yawn of Yawns
The Star-Gazer's Legacy
117
1
A Forgetful Number
118
1
A Conceited Mistake
119
1
A Wise Triangle
120
1
Petrified Echoes
121
1
The Story of a Story
122
1
Yawn of Yawns
123
2
Signs
An Intruder
125
1
A Winged Pipe
126
1
An Obstinate Bundle
127
1
A Homeless Head
128
1
A Condemned Dagger
129
1
Burning Hands
130
1
The Last Rope
131
2
Dissension
A Crowned Apple
133
1
A Blue Noose
134
1
A High Path
135
1
Hardworking Threads
136
1
Foster Brood
137
1
Fertile Fire
138
1
Free Flight
139
2
Imitation of the Sun
Death of the Sun's Father
141
1
Blind Sun
142
1
Clash at the Zenith
143
1
Preparations for a Welcome
144
1
Midnight Sun
145
1
Foreign Sun
146
1
Imitation of the Sun
147
2
Schism
Gluttonous Smoke
149
1
A Cake of Ashes
150
1
An Extinguished Wheel
151
1
A Fireproof Spool
152
1
A Clot of Darkness
153
1
The Fiery Sunflower
154
1
An Incandescent Kiss
155
2
The Limetree in the Heart
The Song of Young Truth
157
1
A Dragon in the Womb
158
1
The Taming of the Dagger
159
1
A Fish in the Soul
160
1
The Suffering of the Golden Stool
161
1
A Dove in the Head
162
1
The Limetree in the Heart
163
2
Heaven's Ring
The Star-Gazer's Death
165
1
Heaven's Ring
166
1
Nothingness
167
1
Orphan Absence
168
1
The Shadow Maker
169
1
The Starry Snail
170
1
Fugitive Stars
171
4
EARTH ERECT (1972)
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
175
1
Chelandarion
176
1
Kalenic
177
1
Zica
178
1
Sopocani
179
1
Manasija
180
1
Szentendre
181
2
St Sava's Spring
St Sava's Spring
183
1
The Life of St Sava
184
1
St Sava
185
1
St Sava's Pastoral Work
186
1
St Sava's Forge
187
1
St Sava's School
188
1
St Sava's Journey
189
1
St Sava at His Spring
190
1
The Blackbird's Field
The Blackbird's Field
191
1
Supper on the Blackbird's Field
192
1
The Blackbird's Song
193
1
The Battle on the Blackbird's Field
194
1
The Crowned One of the Blackbird's Field
195
1
The Warriors of the Blackbird's Field
196
1
The Blackbird's Mission
197
2
The Tower of Skulls
The Tower of Skulls
199
1
Initiation of Black George
200
1
Black George
201
1
Rose over Cegar
202
1
Dirge
203
1
The Death of Black George
204
1
Song of the Tower of Skulls
205
2
Return to Belgrade
Return to Belgrade
207
1
The Upper Fortress
208
1
Terazije
209
1
Apothecaries' Field
210
1
Fearless Tower
211
1
Great Lord Danube
212
1
Belgrade
213
4
WOLF SALT (1975)
The Worshipping of the Lame Wolf
Go back to your lair
217
1
I have prostrated myself before you
218
1
Accept my poor gifts
219
1
Turn your face on me
220
1
Lift the stone from your heart
221
1
Let me approach you
222
1
Go back to your lair
223
2
The Fiery She-Wolf
The she-wolf lies
225
1
They imprison the she-wolf
226
1
They catch the she-wolf in steel traps
227
1
The she-wolf bathes in the blue
228
1
The she-wolf rises on her hindlegs
229
2
Prayer to the Wolf Shepherd
We pray to you wolf shepherd
231
1
Beat us to death or accept us
232
1
Seize our father unfather
233
1
Break your staff in three
234
1
Don't leave us here alone
235
2
The Wolf Land
Father I cannot see our sunny land
237
1
My son I see our land asleep
238
1
Father I cannot see our beautiful land
239
1
My son I see our land crucified
240
1
Father I see the wolf
241
1
Through the wolf's ribs my son
242
1
Hymn to the Wolf Shepherd
Rejoice O wolf shepherd
243
1
We've wrenched ourselves out of our paws
244
1
Around us white-fleeced she-clouds
245
1
We fly to meet you
246
1
Rejoice O red shadow
247
2
The Lame Wolf's Tracks
On their shoulders the beaters carry
249
1
With his paws the lame wolf strokes the axe
250
1
On a burning gusle
251
1
On his back the lame wolf carries
252
1
The lame wolf walks the world
253
2
The Wolf Bastard
You bark
255
1
Without asking your leave
256
1
I go on a search for my true father
257
1
With hammer fist and head
258
1
From the brotherly constellation of Seven Sheepboys
259
1
Astride my head-wolf
260
1
You bark
261
4
RAW FLESH (1975)
Earthly Constellation
265
1
The Idol of Vrsac
266
1
Rejuvenated Waterfall
267
1
The Unknown Citizen
268
1
In the Village of My Forefathers
269
1
The Lost Red Boot
270
1
Time Swept Up
271
1
The Last Dance
272
1
Walking in a Circle
273
1
Unbroken Lesson
274
1
The Poet's Ladder
275
1
Imminent Return
276
1
Be Seeing You
277
1
Poetry Lesson
278
1
At the Sign of the Wolves
279
1
Not Quite Nice
280
1
The Game of Creation
281
1
Wolf Ancestry
282
1
Wolf Eyes
283
1
The Wolves' Foster-Father
284
1
The White Boat
285
1
Broken Horns
286
1
The Next World
287
1
Wolves' Tenderness
288
1
The Cherry Tree in the House of Death
289
1
Absolute Goal
290
1
Man's Job
291
1
Conversation with Poppies
292
1
Endless Youth
293
1
How Like the Family
294
1
Secret Joke
295
1
Wolf Shadow
296
1
Meeting with my Forefathers
297
1
Protector of the Corn
298
1
Heavenly Journey
299
1
The Chariot of Vrsac
300
1
Beautiful Nothingness
301
4
THE HOUSE IN THE HIGHROAD (1975)
Houseguard
I Defend
305
2
Letter to a Friend from Abroad
307
1
Stecak
308
1
Peace-Bearing Song
309
1
Belgrade Library
310
1
Novi Sad: New Orchard in Blossom
311
2
The Wall
Eye to eye with the wall
313
1
If I were lichen
314
1
Burn out grass
315
1
And you
316
1
Armed Goodness
The sky the sky is blue
317
1
In despair
318
1
Years years
319
1
The earth the earth is dumb
320
1
The Eyes of Sutjeska
Dog unspeakable dog
321
1
Sutjeska rises up to the cloud
322
1
Here all lights perish
323
1
Sutjeska began to flow towards her source
324
1
From our raw flesh the earth is born
325
1
Sutjeska thunders through our bones
326
1
The House in the Highroad
Our house stands in the middle of the highroad
327
1
Since then monsters have streamed out onto the highroad
328
1
Sky splits from earth now and then
329
1
The highroad goes on minding its own business
330
1
Weathercok
Black Migrations
331
1
The Poet's Monument Resurrected
332
1
The Red Brass Band
333
1
The Golden Horn
334
1
Wooing the Rocks
335
2
Notes on The House in the Highroad
Note on the Young Wood-Cutters
337
1
Note on the Terazije Gallows, 1941
337
1
Note on the Trowel
337
1
Note on the Stone
338
1
Note on the Earth
338
3
THE CUT (1981)
Breakfast in the Big City
341
1
Crazy Way Out
342
1
The House
343
1
The Poplar and the Passer-By
344
1
Harmony of Opposites
345
1
Declaration of Love
346
1
Swallow Language
347
1
Poetry Reading for the Gastarbeiters
348
1
Reading Fear Through
349
1
Legend of the Big City
350
1
Secret Post
351
1
Cape of Good Hope
352
1
Dispute about Dew
353
1
Bowl of Nourshing Snow
354
1
Street Monster
355
1
Dream Education
356
1
Building
357
1
The Beautiful God-Hater
358
1
A Critique of Poetry
359
1
Poem in View
360
1
Old Age in Leaf
361
1
Self-Managers
362
1
The Man's Four Wheels
363
1
The Fruits of Battle
364
1
High School of Love
365
1
United Apples
366
1
Respect for the Axle
367
1
Rastko Petrovic's Grave
368
1
Poet's Refuge
369
1
The Tall Silent Ones
370
1
The Betrothed of Death
371
1
The Origin of Love
372
1
Hand-Reading
373
1
Limetree Revenants
374
1
Trouble within Trouble
375
1
Advice and a Half
376
1
Big City Poem
377
4
from IRON GARDEN (unpublished)
The Little Box
The Little Box
381
1
The Little Box's Admirers
382
1
The Little Box's Workmen
383
1
The Little Box's Owners
384
1
The Little Box's Hirers
385
1
The Little Box's Enemies
386
1
The Little Box's Victims
387
1
The Little Box's Judges
388
1
The Little Box's Benefactors
389
1
The Little Box's Prisoners
390
1
Last News of the Little Box
391
2
Translator's Afterword
393
4
Notes on the Poems
397
22
A Guide to Serbo-Croat Pronunciation
419
2
Index of Titles
421