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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872863453 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100513330 02 087286345X 03 9780872863453 15 9780872863453 BC 1 A01 Mehmedinovic, Semezdin Semezdin Mehmedinovic Semezdin Mehmedinovic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia in 1960 and is the author of four books. In 1993 he was cowriter and codirector, with Benjamin Filipovic, of Mizaldo, one of the first Bosnian films shot during the war. The film was presented at the Berlin Film Festival in 1994, and won the first prize at the Mediterranean Festival in Rome the following year. He, his wife, and their child left Bosnia and came to the U.S. as polical refugees in 1996. 2 B06 Alcalay, Ammiel Ammiel Alcalay <p>Ammiel Alcalay is poet, translator, critic, and scholar who teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of, among other books, <em>After Jews and Arabs</em> (1993); <em>the cairo notebooks</em> (1993); <em>Memories of Our Future</em> (1999); <em>from the warring factions</em> (2002); and<em> Scrapmetal </em>(2007). A new book of essays, <em>A Little History</em>, is due out in 2010. He was one of the initiators of the <em>Poetry Is News Coalition</em>, and helped to organize the <em>Olson Now</em> project. He has recently launched <em>Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative</em>, a publishing venture whose mission is to retrieve and make available key texts falling widely under the rubric of the New American Poetry.</p> 01 eng 122 00 122 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Biography/Memoir 24 Internet CL Hierarchy European Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Literature in Translation 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 01 <P>From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout the Serbian nationalists' siege and was active throughout the war in the city's resistance movement, as one of the editor's of the magazine Phantom of Liberty. Sarajevo Blues was originally published at the end of 1992 and was the first book in the Biblioteka "egzil-abc" series, published in Ljubljana, which provided a forum for Bosnian writers and translators under siege or living in exile. Semezdin Mehmedinovic says that "writing is, finally, quite a personal thing that doesn't make much sense unless you are practicing for the last word." For those Bosnians emerging from the siege or still in exile, these "last words" remain intimate possessions, one of the last bastions left against the commodification of tragedy. </P> 02 From one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout... 08 "A memorable literary achievement." Library Journal 08 "Sarajevo Blues is widely considered here to be the best piece of writing to emerge from the besieged capital since Bosnia's war erupted in April 1992." The Washington Post 08 " Sarajevo Blues is at once a battle report and a philosophical investigation. In poems, micro-essays, and prose vignettes, Semezdin Mehmedinovic charts the collapse of a world with heart-breaking clarity and precision." Paul Auster 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100513330/images/87286100513330L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100513330/images/87286100513330S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100513330 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19981201 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19981201 01 02 13.95 USD