Sarajevo blues
By: Semezdin Mehmedinović ; translated from the Bosnian and with an introduction by Ammiel Alcalay.
Contributors: Alcalay, Ammiel.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 122
Description: At the end of 1992, poet, writer, and co-director of the award-winning film "Mizaldo", Semezdin Mehmedinovic published a book of spare and haunting stories and poems that described the collapse of his world following the eruption of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in April of the same year.
Table of contents: title: Loss; title: Singular Dream; title: Corpse; title: August, 1989; title: The Phone Rings; title: In the Studio; title: Alifakovac; title: Stranger; title: Essay; title: Deserter; title: Spirituality; title: Stocking Hat; title: Back then; title: At the Edge of Town; title: The Chetnik Position; title: Expulsion; title: Cisterns / Rainwater; title: A Relatively Calm Day; title: No Man's Land; title: Crows; title: Grbavica; title: A Martyr's Resting Place; title: Lilies; title: Curfew; title: Getting Thinner; title: Looted Stores; title: Imam Bey's Mosque; title: Innocent Civilians; title: Fires; title: Milomir Kovacevic; title: Lion's; title: Glass; title: Zambak / Muslims; title: Kids; title: Hero; title: Grenade; title: Traffic; title: Photographers; title: Wounded Parks; title: War Profiteers; title: White Death; title: Politics; title: Vestibule; title: What will you Remember?; title: Ruins; title: War; title: Animals; title: Cat; title: Shelter; title: Washing the Dead; title: Exodus; title: Bernard-Henri Levy; title: Lapisnica / Eduard Limonov; title: Sign; title: Massacre; title: Freedom; title: Surplus History; title: New Experience; title: Tunnel; title: Zenica Blues; title: Dates; title: An Interview with Semezdin Mehmedinovic / Ammiel Alcalay.