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From Sarajevo with Sorrow - by  Goran Simic (Paperback) - 1 of 1

From Sarajevo with Sorrow - by Goran Simic (Paperback)

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  • When Sprinting from the Graveyard was published in 1997, Goran Simic's poems were severely altered out of the fear that they might offend "Western sensibilities.
  • About the Author: Goran Simic: Goran Simic was born in Bosnia in 1952 and has been living in Toronto since 1996.
  • 80 Pages
  • Poetry, Canadian

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From Sarajevo, With Sorrow is a disturbingly resonant, timely and important collection.



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When Sprinting from the Graveyard was published in 1997, Goran Simic's poems were severely altered out of the fear that they might offend "Western sensibilities." These newly translated poems restore all that is offensive, despairing and necessary to our understanding of war by capturing the poems' original power and humanity. In addition, this collection contains both previously unpublished poems, written "under the candlelight" of the siege, and new poems returning to the sniper's alleys and bunkers of Sarajevo. From Sarajevo, With Sorrow is a disturbingly resonant, timely and important collection.



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"The poetry in From Sarajevo, With Sorrow is at turns anecdotal, hectoring, and coolly visionary. It's all written in the first person, sometimes in Simic's own voice and sometimes as dramatic monologue, but there's nothing introverted about it. Its voice is one of witness rather than confession."—Good Reports

"Besides the cold bare facts of war, Simic's poems...are full of the hallucinatory facts of paranoid nightmares bred by war."—Zach Wells



"The poetry in From Sarajevo, With Sorrow is at turns anecdotal, hectoring, and coolly visionary. It's all written in the first person, sometimes in Simic's own voice and sometimes as dramatic monologue, but there's nothing introverted about it. Its voice is one of witness rather than confession."—Good Reports

"Besides the cold bare facts of war, Simic's poems...are full of the hallucinatory facts of paranoid nightmares bred by war."—Zach Wells




About the Author



Goran Simic: Goran Simic was born in Bosnia in 1952 and has been living in Toronto since 1996. He has published eleven books of poetry, drama, and short fiction, including the acclaimed volume of poems in English translation, Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford University Press, 1997). In Canada, Simic has published Peace and War, a limited edition volume gathering poems by himself and by Fraser Sutherland; other books of his poetry and drama have been translated into nine languages. His poems are included in anthologies of world poetry, such as Scanning the Century (Penguin, 2002) and Banned Poetry (Index, 1997). He has received major literary awards from PEN USA and four times in former Yugoslavia.

Amela Simic: Amela Simic is a translator and writer. Her translations from English of works by Susan Sontag, Bernard Malamud, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates, Joseph Heller, Saul Bellow, Michael Ondaatje and Lawrence Darrell, among others, have appeared in various literary magazines of the former Yugoslavia. She has also translated several novels and works by contemporary philosophers. Her essays and translations of Bosnian poetry have appeared in Salmagundi, TLS, The Paris Review, Canadian Forum, Meta, and BBC Radio. She is currently the Executive Director of Playwrights Guild of Canada and lives in Toronto.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .2 Inches (D)
Weight: .29 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 80
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Canadian
Publisher: Biblioasis
Format: Paperback
Author: Goran Simic
Language: English
Street Date: April 15, 2005
TCIN: 1012316217
UPC: 9780973597158
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-5617
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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