At a time when no one could have foreseen anything but a bright future for the poet, he died prematurely in 1961 at the age of 27.

[5] In his one-line poem "Epitaph", he writes "Ubi me prejaka reč" ("I was killed by a word too strong") almost sensing his premature end of life.

During the last years of his life, he published five books of poetry (I Wake Her in Vain, Death against Death, The Origin of Hope, Fire and Nothing, The Shining Blood, criticism, and translations of the French Symbolists and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam.

It was written and directed by Marislav Radisavljević [sr], and produced by Ivan Zdravković.

[7] In 2024, several of his poems were included in Buenos Aires Poetry n°1, in Serbian, English and Spanish.