My second book came to life in a rather strange
way. The editor of the respectable literary
journal Gradina (published since
1900), heard that I had been working for several
years on gathering material for a book about Tom
Waits. He called me one day to ask if I would make an
anthology of Waits’ poetry,
translate it into Serbian, and publish as a separate book
with Gradina.
I made a selection and wrote the introductory essay,
titled “The
Times. The Man. The Nightmares.”
I am still
fond of this collection, since it was published in the
same edition with books by John Lennon, Julio Cortazar,
R. W. Fassbinder, Jorge Luis Borges, Susan Sontag, and
Walter Benjamin, among others.
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