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Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Chris Agee
ISBN-13: 9781852244156, ISBN-10: 1852244151
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Date Published: December 1998
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Chris Agee

Book Synopsis

Scar on the Stone is the first anthology of Bosnian poetry in English to have appeared since the outbreak of war and genocide following the independence of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992. It brings together fourteen of the country's most distinguished poets, chosen on the basis of artistic merit alone, but drawn from all creeds - Muslim, Orthodox, Catholic - and none, and from all three jurisdictions of the new federation.

	Introduction	15
	Text about a land	29
	A word on man	30
	Recognition	32
	Text about the hunt	32
	Sun	34
	Moon	35
	Text about time	35
	Rain	36
	The Rightwise	37
	Text on a watershed	38
	Kolo of sorrow	39
	Radimlja	40
	Cossara	42
	Gorchin	43
	A text about the five	44
	Prologue: Return	45
	Gavrilo	55
	A Dispute About God	56
	Into the Great Mist	60
	Those Who Cross	60
	The Partisan Cemetery	62
	A Blind Man Sings to His City	63
	Chronicle of a Miracle	64
	Sarajevo Sings	65
	Why Venice Is Sinking	66
	My Sojourn in Istanbul	68
	The Criticism of Poetry	69
	The Blues	69
	Untitled	70
	Luck in Sarajevo	71
	In the Evening	71
	Softly with a Touch of Sadness	72
	Ave Maria	73
	Tomb	74
	The Breakfast of the Blind	75
	Lament	76
	On Nationalism	77
	From Mr. Pfeffer of Sarajevo	80
	A Small Map of the World	82
	Nel mezzo del cammin	88
	Essex, on the Eve of Execution	89
	Childhood (II)	90
	White Hawthorn in Pape	91
	Grave/Cave	94
	Summa Summarum	95
	Like Krle when he smokes marijuana	96
	Running	97
	Mustapha's bags	97
	A slug's nightmare	98
	My death in the trenches	98
	A stone wedding	99
	From sky to here	100
	Peak of the roof	101
	I was air	102
	From the Textbook of Slavic Mythology	103
	On What I Have Known for a Long Time	104
	Good Evening, the Guest Is Gone	104
	November, Raging Through Rooms	105
	It's April	106
	Georg Trakl on the Battlefield Revisited, 1993	106
	The Writer Contemplates His Homeland While a Famous Postmodernist Enters the City	107
	From The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia	108
	Summer Holidays in Hell	117
	Death-Bed	118
	The Angel of Winter	118
	The Pillow	119
	Lunch on Day Seventy-Seven	120
	The Deaf Home	120
	My Uncle the People	121
	The Morning Cut	122
	Cold Storage	123
	Saturday Idyll	124
	Keeping Guard in Dobrinja	125
	The Voices Are Coming	126
	October 31st	127
	Pregnant Girl	128
	The Camp: And Her Brother's Death Foreseen	128
	Deserted Ship in Alexandria	129
	Trout Evening	130
	My Animal	131
	Gottfried Benn in Cafe Sarajevo 94	132
	New York New York	133
	Summer Lament	134
	Persistent Ancestors	135
	A Guest May Come	135
	Almost a Life	136
	Deserted Campsites	136
	Anti-Mauberley	137
	Pastoral Divertissement	140
	Some of the Secrets Are Out	140
	Religion	141
	From Sarajevo Marlboro	142
	Prague Meditation	150
	You're Not a Man If You Don't Die	151
	A Prayer Unfolded	152
	The Carousel	153
	Wreck	153
	Ring	154
	Letter to a Friend	154
	Land	155
	The World We Changed	156
	House under the Sky	157
	Open the Window, Mother	158
	It Is the Wind Swaying You in Fits and Starts	158
	Evening Wine	159
	A Sudden Shift	160
	Zenica Blues	161
	Numinous	165
	The Only Dream	166
	The Stranger	167
	An Essay	167
	Dates	168
	Sarajevo Blues (a sequence)	169
	Untitled	183
	Airborne Hazards	183
	Playback	184
	Festival of the Dead in a Second Division Stadium	184
	To Defend	185
	To Lie Down	185
	To Contribute	186
	To Forget	186
	To Know	186
	To Be Ready	187
	To Discuss	187
	A Shattered Honeycomb	188
	Invisible Statues	188
	Sarajevo Nocturne	189
	Threads	190
	Skeletons and Us	190
	Poem for My Cells	191
	Ad	191
	Return from Guard Duty	192
	Trench No.3	192
	Told by Mustafa of the Noble and Mad Zvizdic Family	193
	The Hump	194
	Home	195
	Billie Holiday	196
	Craftsmen	197
	Untitled	197
	Richochet	198
	The Last Men	198
	Epilogue: A Week in Sarajevo	201

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Eastern European Poetry

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