{"id":101585,"date":"2026-01-11T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/?page_id=101585"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:43:52","slug":"the-long-coming-of-the-fire-content","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-long-coming-of-the-fire-content\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Coming of the Fire: content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"The\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Long Coming of the Fire, Selected poems. Bilingual. 2023\n

\n\t\t\tThe Long Coming of the Fire
Content\t<\/h1>\n\t

Looking Up at the Perfect Silence of the Stars<\/a> – A Foreword by Jasmina \u0160opova<\/p>\n

The Fire Is Here: The Long Journey of Aco \u0160opov<\/a> –\u00a0 An Introduction by Rawley Grau and Christina E. Kramer<\/p>\n

Acknowledgments<\/p>\n

Not-Being (1963)<\/h2>\nDown Below There Is a Blood<\/a>
\nScar<\/a>\n

Prayers of my body<\/h3>\nBirth of the Word<\/a>
\nPrayer for an Ordinary Word Not Yet Found<\/a>
\nSecond prayer of my body<\/a>
\nThird Prayer of My Body<\/a>
\nFourth Prayer of My Body<\/a>
\nFifth Prayer od My Body<\/a>
\nSixth Prayer of My Body<\/a>
\nSeventh Prayer of My Body<\/a>
\nEighth Prayer of My Body, or, Who Will Conceive of That Love?<\/a>
\nNinth Prayer of My Body<\/a>
\nTenth Prayer of My Body<\/a>
\nLast Prayer of My Body<\/a>\n

The Song and the Years<\/h3>\nRag-and-Bone Man<\/a>
\nLong Have I Leaved in This Place<\/a>
\nNightfall<\/a>
\nDespair Before the Fortress<\/a>
\nNot-Being<\/a>
\nThe Song and the Years<\/a>\n

Reader of the Ashes (1970)<\/h2>\n

The Long Coming of the Fire<\/h3>\nThe Fire’s Night<\/a>
\nThe Fire’s Retreat<\/a>
\nThe Fire’s Love<\/a>
\nThe Long Coming of the Fire<\/a>\n

Reader of the Ashes<\/h3>\nHorrordeath<\/a>
\nThe Golden Cercle of time<\/a>
\nLament from the Other Side of Life<\/a>
\nIf There Isn’t Enough Light for You<\/a>
\nTempest<\/a>
\nNight Spring<\/a>
\nAugust<\/a>
\nReader of the Ashes<\/a>\n

Black Horsmen, White Riders<\/h3>\nThe Lake<\/a>
\nThe Lake by the Monastery<\/a>
\nNight Over the Lake by the Monastery<\/a>\n

Black Sun<\/h3>\nBlack Sun<\/a>
\nAgain Black Sun<\/a>
\nAnd Yet Again Black Sun<\/a>\n

Earlier Poems<\/h2>\n

From With Our Hands<\/em> (1950)<\/h3>\n

Eyes<\/a><\/p>\n

From Merge with the Silence<\/em> (1955)<\/h3>\nBeauty<\/a>
\nIn Silence<\/a>
\nOh this beauty<\/a>
\nWhen Times are Hardest<\/a>
\nI Seek My Voice<\/a>
\nLeaf<\/a>
\nTo the Seagull Circling Over My Head<\/a>
\nStork<\/a>
\nCloud<\/a>
\nAt the Lake<\/a>
\nHunt on the Lake<\/a>
\nAn Ordinary Street<\/a>
\nTrickery<\/a>\n

From The Wind Carries Beautiful Weather<\/em> (1957)<\/h3>\nThe White Sorrow of the Spring<\/a>
\nOddball<\/a>
\nA Toast<\/a>
\nGood Night<\/a>
\nIllusion<\/a>
\nCall Me Sky<\/a>
\nWaking<\/a>
\nWe Have to Be Better<\/a>
\nThe Wind Carries Beautiful Weather<\/a>\n

Later Poems<\/h2>\n

From The Song of the Black Woman<\/em> (1976)<\/h3>\nThe Baobab<\/a>
\nInto the Black Woman’s Dream<\/a>
\nBefore the Flamboyants Bloomed<\/a>
\nWoman in the Rainy Season<\/a>
\nAn Event by the Lake<\/a>
\nGazing at the Ocean<\/a>
\nThe Light of the Slaves<\/a>\n

From The Tree on the Hill<\/em> (1980)<\/h3>\nThe Home of the Dream<\/a>
\nI Sit Alone with My Flame in My Breast<\/a>
\nOf the Oldest and Purest Sunlight<\/a>
\nThe Sun and the Body<\/a>
\nA Nest in the Waves<\/a>
\nThe Tree on the Hill<\/a>\n

Appendix<\/h2>\n

At Five Seventeen – Aco \u0160opov on the Skopje Earthquake of 1963<\/p>\n

Notes on the Poems<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInformation about the book\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to the Poetry Shelf\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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