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| | The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Poets Vasko Popa |
 | | VASKO POPA, now considered the most prominent Yugoslavian poet, was born in 1923, and so belongs to that generation of Eastern European poets who endured World War II when they were young; Ted Hughes, writing on Popa in Tri-Quarterly, has documented their response to what they witnessed during those years: |
 | | At a time when the impulses of surrealism were everywhere enacting a loud rage against aesthetics, insulting whatever vestiges were left of art, the temptation must have been to succumb or to fall silent. |
 | | What poets like Popa proposed was no less than a program of animalism, in which the landscape moves as if it were an animal, in which what is most alive is the articulation of non-human speech. |
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