The Bosnia elegies : poems /
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| Author / Creator: | Oktenberg, Adrian, 1947- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Ashfield, Mass. : Paris Press, 1997. |
| Description: | 60 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3086413 |
Table of Contents:
- Early summer
- A hunter
- "In 1991, when Yugoslavia broke up..."
- They took the men of military age
- When my mother was killed
- Messages
- In the refugee camp
- The thousands who disappeared
- In the morning
- Like an American movie star
- The systematic destruction
- Out of the shards of the ruined house
- Why do men confuse
- The drought
- The Serbs won't let the Red Cross in
- It was an open-air market
- There was a woman in Bihac
- "Towns we believe and die in"
- The young Muslim said to his uncle
- In Sarajevo there lived
- Who dares to speak of Beauty
- Our room
- In August l9l4
- Those who are forced to live in this city
- One afternoon we separated
- There was no inevitability
- A young sniper
- Like everything else
- After the offensive
- These crazy countries
- Darling, your face is turning white
- Exile from home
- Banja Luka
- The Bosnian Serbs are farmers
- The West promises much
- In Sarajevo I was happy
- My mother's death
- If I could find sleep
- It's very much like him
- No no no you don't understand
- Let me tell you the story of my friend
- All that he'd hoped for
- At a dinner
- They are finding mass graves
- Early October
- Away
- Winter snows
- No one can tell you
- The world is full.
