Georgi Gospodinov | Kino: The Poetry of Nikola Vaptsarov
- The Bulgarian writer Nikola Vaptsarov (1909-1942) was one of the most significant European poets of the twentieth-century, a radical Modernist whose work has often been compared to that of Mayakovsky and Lorca. A marine engineer, fireman, fitter, railway-stoker, trade-unionist and a Communist, Vaptsarov was executed during the Second World War for his part in the Bulgarian resistance. He was thirty-three.Although only one book of Vaptsarov's poems, Motor Songs, was published in his lifetime, since his death his poetry has been translated into over fifty languages. He wrote a quick, colloquial, concrete, argumentative poetry that transcended the usual idioms of Communist ideology to include cinema, radio, adverts, popular culture and modern technology.
- • Language: English
• Format: 13 x 19.5 cm
• Volume: 80 pages
• Covers: paperback
• Year of issue: 2014.






