Download or read book POEMS OF THE BALKAN written by Aleksandar Sasha Trajkovski and published by Data Pesnopoj. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Aleksandar Sasha Trajkovski's s poetry can be seen as a unified and coherent body of work. Indeed, despite its manifest originality, its radical experimentation, and its dazzling formal variety, his verse yields meaning just as surely as other more conventional poetry. The author argues that an implicit controlling theme--the buried life, people's jealousy of other people's success, people's happiness of other people's pain, or the failure of feeling--unfolds in surprisingly varied ways throughout his work. But alongside dr. Trajkovski's s desire "to live with all intensity" was also a distrust of "violent emotion for its own sake." Some poems illuminate this paradoxical Trajkovski--an exacting anti-romantic realist, skeptical of the emotions, yet incessantly troubled by the fear of emotional failure--through close readings of such poems as "Borderless lines," "Plastic human dolls," The Hollow Men, The Pagan World" and many others. The heart of the book contains extended analyses of Trajkovski's s two masterworks--"Insovlable Enigma", and "And That Storm Came". "Poems from the Balkans" also examines the author's criticism--including his coinage of such key literary terms as the objective correlative, dissociation of sensibility, the auditory imagination--. He concludes with a convincing refutation of charges that the author was an anti-Semite. Here then is a volume absolutely indispensable for all admirers of A. S. Trajkovski and, in fact, for everyone who loves modern literature.
Download or read book Balkan Poetry Today 2017 written by Tom Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very first magazine to capture the very best modern poetry translated into English from all of the Balkan countries. Featuring some the most important voices to come from Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, Romania, Macedonia, Croatia with essays, features and notes for the academic and the general reader.
Download or read book Poetry from the Balkans written by Fahredin B. Shehu and published by Inner Child Press, Limited. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword There is no the best Poetry Anthology ever, nor it will ever be done. For I happen to realize that Poetry is beyond collective liking and subjective purpose for unifying all which is impossible and what we may consider outstanding it is just a mere ephemeral enthusiasm and/ or temporary thrill. The truth is that the Poets represented in this Anthology are more than that. More than people who represent a written word of respective Countries. They are their best ambassadors of Culture, Art, Humanity and Civilization which goes Global. In about 300 pages the reader is invited to immerse in a splendor of a written word by a living Masters of contemporary Balkan Poetry. This will indeed trigger attention, obey the thirst for knowing other nations and their artistic legacy, build bridges of understanding of the other and much more.The attention has been paid to create balance of different generation so we have young middle age and crafted masters of modern Balkan poetry as well as gender balance so we have a palette of genuine Poets and Poetesses to be offering in English their art for wider audience. I am privileged to hardly work on connecting people, gathering their material, mixing with their souls from whom I have learned many new things and I hope the reader will have too, the pleasure of getting to know more about Modern Poetry in this part of Europe.It was my original aim to bring forth these voices and diffuse them into wider readership and the Miracle here lays to reflect and respond to the pulsating impulse of creativity which is indeed a driving force of every Artist shown here in its best element.I am extremely grateful to the Publishers who released all ties to my hands, so I was free to invite Poets aiming to select among the best.Grateful too to all Poets participating and trusting in my efforts to accomplish this task.fahredin b. shehu Kosovo
Download or read book Balkan Fancies and Other Poems written by A. J.. Mann and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shade of the Balkans written by Henry Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book As the Wind Blew Poems Classic Reprint written by Amélie Rives and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from As the Wind Blew Poems Balkan Songs which appeared first in Pan's Mountain. These Balkan Songs are original and not translations as many reviewers thought them to be when they appeared. The rest of the poems in this volume have never before been pub lished, with the further exception of Whom the Gods Love, which was given away to a war cause and is reprinted here with the kind consent of Mr. Maxfield Parrish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book BALKAN HAIKU HARIKIRI written by Aleksandar Sasha Trajkovski and published by Society for Literary Development NOV VAVILON, Bitola. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balkan Haiku - Harakiri is written in the style of Japanese Haiku poetry, but with a Balkan flavor, describing the mentality that surrounds us every day, with all its flaws, through quips and jokes, in a way characteristic of the author.
Download or read book Only the Nails Remain written by Christopher Merrill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-10-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher MerrillOs ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue, a book of war reportage, and a biography of the imagination under siege, this beautifully written and personal narrative takes the reader along on the authorOs journeys to all the provinces and republics of the former Yugoslavia and surrounding countries. This literary meditation on war is a fascinating portrait of the poetry, politics and the people of the Balkans which will provide insight into the past, present, and future of those war-torn lands.
Download or read book Voices from the Faultline written by A. Johnson and published by Zayupress. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Fiction. Translation. While the world's attention has been focused on the violence and political events in the Balkans, the creative works of those who struggle to maintain the rich literary culture in this under represented part of Europe has been ignored. This anthology recognizes some of those passionate voices from the faultline. "What is more appropriate for students being introduced to a long-neglected corner of Europe still dealing with the 'Eastern Question' than an introduction to writers and poets, some in their twenties, who offer them glimpses from the inside into age-old myths and responses to present-day reality?"--Dr. John kolsti.
Download or read book Serbian Poetry from the Beginnings to the Present written by Milne Holton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road That Carries No Dust written by Martin Booth Tracy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prose poems included in this book reflect impressions of my experiences in Russia and South Eastern Europe, as well as a brief venture in Turkmenistan. I periodically worked in these areas as a university professor, international consultant, and Senior Fulbright Specialist. My interest in international studies began when my wife, Patsy, and I served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Turkey, 1965-67. I later became a Research Analyst with the Comparative Studies Staff (now the Office of International Programs) of the Social Security Administration in Washington, DC. It was in this position that I developed an appreciation for the difficulties, as well as the possibilities, of policies and programs aimed at helping vulnerable populations in developing economies relative to income and social services, particularly for elderly persons. Two years as a Senior Research Analyst with the International Social Security Association in Geneva, 1977-79, whetted my interest in the different ways older and at-risk men and women of diverse cultures and economies are treated around the world. From 1982 to 2004, I conducted research on the elderly in numerous countries as a university professor. In 1994 my wife, who is also an academic, and I had an opportunity to become involved in the development and implementation of a teaching project on social services in Samara, Russia, a province about 400 miles south of Moscow on the Volga River. We also became involved in a long-term initiative with the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Budapest, Hungary. The ILO had a grant from the European Union, funded by the Government of France, for a project entitled: Strengthening Social Protection in South Eastern Europe that included the countries of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, and Serbia and Montenegro. It is in this context that I had abundant opportunities to experience and observe life in the various cultures referenced in the poems. The poems are my attempt to go beyond professional descriptions of policies and programs to capture some of the spirit and nuances of the complex history and current conditions in burgeoning and energetic societies that continue to grapple with the transformation from stifling, autocratic political, social, and civil environments.
Download or read book Scar on the Stone written by Chris Agee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 hidden peacetime Bosnia of Yugoslav Communism and the land ravaged by the worst war crimes on European soil since the Second World War. In a compelling introduction, editor Chris Agee relates literature to history, setting Scar on the Stone in the context of the rich, complex polyphony that is Bosnia. The translators are themselves leading poets from Britain, Ireland and America, including Harry Clifton, David Constantine, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Ted Hughes, Kathleen Jamie, Ruth Padel, Charles Simic, Ken Smith and John Hartley Williams. Mak Dizdar and some of the younger poets are translated by Francis R. Jones, whose translations of Ivan V. Lalic and Vasko Popa have been widely acclaimed.
Download or read book Balkan Poetry Today 2018 written by Tom Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the annual journal dedicated to contemporary poetry from SE Europe includes work by more than 40 poets from across the region. Between them they explore a multitude of themes - from war and loss to love and hope - in a hugely diverse range of styles.
Download or read book A Balkan Exchange written by W. N. Herbert and published by ARC Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting anthology maps a singular encounter between two groups of poets--one based in Bulgaria and the other in England--working together as writers, editors, and teachers to create a diverse body of original poetry and new translations.
Download or read book Heavenly Balkans written by Vladimir Levchev and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under Balkan Light written by Richard Berengarten and published by Salt Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honours dignity and courage. The book starts with a tour-de-force, the long poem ‘Do vidjenje Danitsé’ (‘Goodbye Balkan Belle’), and continues with a series of memorial tablets for victims of Jasenovac concentration camp. The book includes a sequence in memory of the Serbian, Yugoslav and Mediterranean poet, Ivan V. Lalic.Under Balkan Light forms the final part of Richard Berengarten’s Balkan Trilogy and is published together with the first two parts, The Blue Butterfly and In a Time of Drought. It is also the fifth volume in the Salt series of his Selected Writings.Richard Berengarten used to be known as Richard Burns. With the publication of this book, he now repossesses the family name of his father, the cellist and saxophonist Alexander Berengarten.
Download or read book Rooms and Fields written by Lee Peterson and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
