From Sarajevo, With Sorrow

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WhenSprinting from the Graveyardwas published in 1997, Goran Simis 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 In addition, this collection contains both previously unpublished poems, written under the candlelight of the siege, and new poems returning to the snipers alleys and bunkers of Sarajevo.From Sarajevo, With Sorrowis a disturbingly resonant, timely and important collection.Praise forFrom Sarajevo, With SorrowThe poetry inFrom Sarajevo, With Sorrowis at turns anecdotal, hectoring, and coolly visionary. Its all written in the first person, sometimes in Simis own voice and sometimes as dramatic monologue, but theres nothing introverted about it. Its voice is one of witness rather than confession.Good ReportsBesides the cold bare facts of war, Simis poems . . . are full of the hallucinatory facts of paranoid nightmares bred by war.Zach Wells