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Scar on the Stone
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.The book begins with one of the greatest modern poets of the Balkans, Mak Dizdar (1917-1971), and ends with a selection of younger poets whose work emerged powerfully during the siege of Sarajevo. The result is a Janus-faced volume of rare breadth: one which evokes both the hi...
Forgotten Future
Literature's ethical and social responsibility, argued through this inspiring and intellectually exciting book, lies in an emancipatory poetics and politics that reflects otherness and the subtle interweavings of difference. Dr. Francis R. Jones, Newcastle University.
Klaonica
This international anthology has been assembled in a matter of days as an immediate if inadequate response to the suffering in Bosnia. What else is there to say about Bosnia? What more can anyone do?KLAONICA is the poets' attempt to do or say something. It includes poems by many leading writers, some already published in The Independent's series Bosnia Poems. The poems are baffled, helpless, heartfelt, heartbreaking, angry, tender, grieving. Useless too: except that readers should find some comfort, some hope, in this book. And the book is published to raise funds for Bosnian relief.The writers come from Britain, Ireland, Europe, North America and Bosnia. They include Annemarie Austin, Jose...
Stone Speaker
The Poet Mak Dizdar (d.1971) has become a cultural icon in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina. Inspired by the lapidary imagery and epitaphs of medieval Bosnian tombstones, his best-acclaimed collection of poetry, Stone Sleeper , reawakens the medieval voices and assigns them a new role in the historical imagination of contemporary Bosnians. In this study, Amila Buturovic looks at Stone Sleeper's recovery of the ancestral world as an effort to refashion the sentiments of collective belonging. In treating the medieval tombstones as sites of collective memory, Dizdar's poetry evokes new possibilities for Bosnians to cast aside national differences based primarily on religion and embrace a pluralistic identity rooted in the sacred landscape of medieval Bosnia.
The Bosnia Elegies
Adrian Oktenberg breaks the media-induced numbness of war and makes it impossible to resist or deny the genocide in Bosnia Adrian Oktenberg breaks the media-induced numbness that surrounded the war in the Balkans, and makes it impossible to resist or deny this genocide. Echoing the voices of Charlotte Delbo, Walt Whitman, Cavafy, Tory Dent, Carolyn Forche, and many others, this collection presents the duality of the brutalities and experiences of war beside life in an American landscape marked with the ripening tomatoes of summer and news of devastation in foreign cities with unpronounceable names.
The Flying Bosnian
A sequence of 70 poems from the Bosnian refugee Miroslav Jacnic, which were all written in exile in London, in English. The poems communicate a strongly anti-nationalistic voice.
Sarajevo Blues
From one of Bosnia’s most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout the Serbian nationalists’ siege and was active throughout the war in the city’s resistance movement, as one of the editor’s of the magazine Phantom of Liberty. Sarajevo Blues was originally published at the end of 1992 and was the first book in the Biblioteka “egzil-abc” series, published in Ljubljana, which provided a forum for Bosnian writers and translators under siege or living in exile. Semezdin Mehmedinovic says that “writing is, final...
Silent Screams - Bosnian Bloody Tale
The roots of haiku poetry stretch back some eight centuries, only to reach its peak three-to-four centuries ago, and today, it is written by the poets all over the world, including some poets of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Now, we hear the voice of yet another Bosnian poet, this time hailing from Zenica, by the name Dr. Smajil Durmisevic. He represents a new name on the literary stage of Bosnia and Herzegovina. His first poetic creation, which is presented here, and his appearance in literature are interesting in more than one way. Smajil Durmisevic, a doctor of medical science, introduces himself with this manuscript as a knowledgeable and dedicated practitioner of haiku, a poet not seen and pr...
Rooms and Fields
Winner of the 2003 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize dictionary talks; very memorably, the bride over the Drina River, roughly between Bosnia and Serbia, speaks two haunting poems. The dead talk, wolves talk, a teacher talks, with a chorus. Sometimes I like to imagine this long poem being staged. What the music would be Who would do the sets What languages doesn't have a single wasted breath; its sense of necessity never lets up; I always feel that the people and animals and landscapes being written about are being honoured. The work is compassionate and single-mindedly alive to its purpose. What a rare thing it is to find the meeting of historical, political, and poetic wisdom. Jean Valentine, Judge deeply felt. A poetic inquiry, its concerns are uniquely and fundamentally intimate. Compassion drives this collection of spare and gracious poems.
New Poems for Bosnia
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