Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry from Bosnia
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.
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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.
Introduction15Text about a land29A word on man30Recognition32Text about the hunt32Sun34Moon35Text about time35Rain36The Rightwise37Text on a watershed38Kolo of sorrow39Radimlja40Cossara42Gorchin43A text about the five44Prologue: Return45Gavrilo55A Dispute About God56Into the Great Mist60Those Who Cross60The Partisan Cemetery62A Blind Man Sings to His City63Chronicle of a Miracle64Sarajevo Sings65Why Venice Is Sinking66My Sojourn in Istanbul68The Criticism of Poetry69The Blues69Untitled70Luck in Sarajevo71In the Evening71Softly with a Touch of Sadness72Ave Maria73Tomb74The Breakfast of the Blind75Lament76On Nationalism77From Mr. Pfeffer of Sarajevo80A Small Map of the World82Nel mezzo del cammin88Essex, on the Eve of Execution89Childhood (II)90White Hawthorn in Pape91Grave/Cave94Summa Summarum95Like Krle when he smokes marijuana96Running97Mustapha's bags97A slug's nightmare98My death in the trenches98A stone wedding99From sky to here100Peak of the roof101I was air102From the Textbook of Slavic Mythology103On What I Have Known for a Long Time104Good Evening, the Guest Is Gone104November, Raging Through Rooms105It's April106Georg Trakl on the Battlefield Revisited, 1993106The Writer Contemplates His Homeland While a Famous Postmodernist Enters the City107From The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia108Summer Holidays in Hell117Death-Bed118The Angel of Winter118The Pillow119Lunch on Day Seventy-Seven120The Deaf Home120My Uncle the People121The Morning Cut122Cold Storage123Saturday Idyll124Keeping Guard in Dobrinja125The Voices Are Coming126October 31st127Pregnant Girl128The Camp: And Her Brother's Death Foreseen128Deserted Ship in Alexandria129Trout Evening130My Animal131Gottfried Benn in Cafe Sarajevo 94132New York New York133Summer Lament134Persistent Ancestors135A Guest May Come135Almost a Life136Deserted Campsites136Anti-Mauberley137Pastoral Divertissement140Some of the Secrets Are Out140Religion141From Sarajevo Marlboro142Prague Meditation150You're Not a Man If You Don't Die151A Prayer Unfolded152The Carousel153Wreck153Ring154Letter to a Friend154Land155The World We Changed156House under the Sky157Open the Window, Mother158It Is the Wind Swaying You in Fits and Starts158Evening Wine159A Sudden Shift160Zenica Blues161Numinous165The Only Dream166The Stranger167An Essay167Dates168Sarajevo Blues (a sequence)169Untitled183Airborne Hazards183Playback184Festival of the Dead in a Second Division Stadium184To Defend185To Lie Down185To Contribute186To Forget186To Know186To Be Ready187To Discuss187A Shattered Honeycomb188Invisible Statues188Sarajevo Nocturne189Threads190Skeletons and Us190Poem for My Cells191Ad191Return from Guard Duty192Trench No.3192Told by Mustafa of the Noble and Mad Zvizdic Family193The Hump194Home195Billie Holiday196Craftsmen197Untitled197Richochet198The Last Men198Epilogue: A Week in Sarajevo201
