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Ivan V. Lalić

  • ТАКО ЈЕ ПЕВАО ОРФЕЈ | Translations: de
  • АРГОНАУТИ | Translations: de
  • ОПЕЛО ЗА СЕДАМ СТОТИНА ИЗ ЦРКВЕ У ГЛИНИ
  • ВАТРЕ ГОРКОГ ЛЕТА КРУЖЕ
  • ВИЗАНТИЈА 2 | Translations: deru
  • ОРФИКА | Translations: de
  • ВОЈНИЧКО ГРОБЉЕ
  • ПИСМО ЏОНУ БЕРИМЕНУ НА ВЕСТ О ЊЕГОВОЈ СМРТИ
Language: serbian

ВАТРЕ ГОРКОГ ЛЕТА КРУЖЕ

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Ватре горког лета круже
С ватром зиме да се здруже,
С ветровима мокре руже.

Магнетна се игла врти,
Не познаје знак на црти,
Пева јако поље смрти.

Шта да кажем овој кости
Што не може да премости
Чисти амбис моје злости?

Где да нађем реч што спаја
Црни пламен мога сјаја
Са почетком јачег краја?

У талогу зоре врви
Гробље звезда, златни црви,
Пчела рој у месу стрви.

Ватре горког лета круже
Ближе средишту, све уже,
Сенке наше све су дуже.

Дрво муње јаких жила,
Изгореће птици крила,
Teste David cum Sibylla.

Када мокри ветар букне,
Кад магнетна игла пукне,
Море с мапе кад устукне,

Да л' ће тачну реч са усне
Крв нејака да запљусне,
У мед понижења згусне?

Певам плод и верност плоду
Који мисли ваздух, воду,
Ограничен у слободу;

Могућности ове шкрте,
Певам пораз праве црте
У сферама што се врте,

Певам верност овој кости,
Овој речи коју гости
Вечност недоречености.

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© Branka Lalić and Ivan V. Lalić Fondation
Audio production: Recording: Congress Library, Washington, 1983, Copyright © Branka Lalić and Ivan V. Lalić Fondation
 

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Ivan V. Lalić

Иван В. Лалић

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* 08.06.1931, Belgrade, Serbia
† 28.07.1996, Belgrade, Serbia

Ivan V. Lalić was born in Belgrade on June 8, 1931.

His father Vlajko was a journalist, and his grandfather Isidor Bajic had been a celebrated composer.

Lalić has gained an international reputation as one of the major poets of the former Yugoslavia. When in 1983, a BBC interviewer asked Lalic how he had found his poetic voice, Lalić replied 'My childhood and boyhood in the war marked everything I ever wrote as a poem or poetry“.

Indeed, Lalić’s poetic quest into the nature of time, culture, and human perception combines a startling clarity of images and a thoughtful, highly crafted, lucid diction that places him firmly in the tradition of European and American modernism, in which he is acknowledged to be one of Europe's masters.

Ivan V. Lalić died on July 28, 1996 in Belgrade and for more than decade after his death is considered as one of Serbian poetry classic.

Publications
  • Sabrana dela I - IV

    Beograd: Zavod za udzbenike i nastavna sredstva, 1997

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