The Long Coming of the Fire
Content
Looking Up at the Perfect Silence of the Stars – A Foreword by Jasmina Šopova
The Fire Is Here: The Long Journey of Aco Šopov – An Introduction by Rawley Grau and Christina E. Kramer
Acknowledgments
Not-Being (1963)
Down Below There Is a Blood
Scar
Prayers of my body
Birth of the Word
Prayer for an Ordinary Word Not Yet Found
Second prayer of my body
Third Prayer of My Body
Fourth Prayer of My Body
Fifth Prayer od My Body
Sixth Prayer of My Body
Seventh Prayer of My Body
Eighth Prayer of My Body, or, Who Will Conceive of That Love?
Ninth Prayer of My Body
Tenth Prayer of My Body
Last Prayer of My Body
The Song and the Years
Rag-and-Bone Man
Long Have I Leaved in This Place
Nightfall
Despair Before the Fortress
Not-Being
The Song and the Years
Reader of the Ashes (1970)
The Long Coming of the Fire
The Fire’s Night
The Fire’s Retreat
The Fire’s Love
The Long Coming of the Fire
Reader of the Ashes
Horrordeath
The Golden Cercle of time
Lament from the Other Side of Life
If There Isn’t Enough Light for You
Tempest
Night Spring
August
Reader of the Ashes
Black Horsmen, White Riders
The Lake
The Lake by the Monastery
Night Over the Lake by the Monastery
Black Sun
Black Sun
Again Black Sun
And Yet Again Black Sun
Earlier Poems
From With Our Hands (1950)
From Merge with the Silence (1955)
Beauty
In Silence
Oh this beauty
When Times are Hardest
I Seek My Voice
Leaf
To the Seagull Circling Over My Head
Stork
Cloud
At the Lake
Hunt on the Lake
An Ordinary Street
Trickery
From The Wind Carries Beautiful Weather (1957)
The White Sorrow of the Spring
Oddball
A Toast
Good Night
Illusion
Call Me Sky
Waking
We Have to Be Better
The Wind Carries Beautiful Weather
Later Poems
From The Song of the Black Woman (1976)
The Baobab
Into the Black Woman’s Dream
Before the Flamboyants Bloomed
Woman in the Rainy Season
An Event by the Lake
Gazing at the Ocean
The Light of the Slaves
From The Tree on the Hill (1980)
The Home of the Dream
I Sit Alone with My Flame in My Breast
Of the Oldest and Purest Sunlight
The Sun and the Body
A Nest in the Waves
The Tree on the Hill
Appendix
At Five Seventeen – Aco Šopov on the Skopje Earthquake of 1963