Fading Contact is a middle-period masterwork by the great Serbo-Croat poet who died suddenly at the height of his powers in July 1996. It marks the watershed between the blazing, vivid imagery of his youthful poetry and the measured, complex verse of...

Ivan V. Lalic was a major Serbo-Croat poet, and thanks to Francis R. Jones's translations his work can be read as authentic poetry in English. "A Rusty Needle" traces his development over nearly twenty years, from his first published poems to the end...

This special edition of poems by Ivan V. Lalic was jointly published by Anvil Press Poetry and Turret Books to mark the occasion of his participation in Poetry Live, May 1987. It is a selection from his book "The Passionate Measure".