<TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Pocket Poets </TitleText>

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GCDS-9780872864238 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100367210 02 0872864235 03 9780872864238 15 9780872864238 BC 01 305 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Pocket Poets </TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Nine Alexandrias</TitleText> <Subtitle>Pocket Poets Number 56</Subtitle> 1 B06 Alcalay, Ammiel Ammiel Alcalay 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, After Jews and Arabs (1993); the cairo notebooks (1993); Memories of Our Future (1999); from the warring factions (2002); and Scrapmetal (2007). A new book of essays, A Little History, is due out in 2010. He was one of the initiators of the Poetry Is News Coalition, and helped to organize the Olson Now project. He has recently launched Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a publishing venture whose mission is to retrieve and make available key texts falling widely under the rubric of the New American Poetry. 2 A24 Alcalay, Ammiel Ammiel Alcalay 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, After Jews and Arabs (1993); the cairo notebooks (1993); Memories of Our Future (1999); from the warring factions (2002); and Scrapmetal (2007). A new book of essays, A Little History, is due out in 2010. He was one of the initiators of the Poetry Is News Coalition, and helped to organize the Olson Now project. He has recently launched Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a publishing venture whose mission is to retrieve and make available key texts falling widely under the rubric of the New American Poetry. 3 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. 01 eng 98 01 Translated from the Bosnian with an introduction by Ammiel AlcalayFollowing his depiction of Bosnia under siege in the much celebrated Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinovic´ now explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response to a cross-country journey by train in post 9-11 America, Mehmedinovic´'s Nine Alexandrias provides a poetry of witness and testimony of a very different order. In this nightmarish and exhilarating odyssey, Mehmedinovic´'s political acuity is displayed everywhere but barely pronounced. In Washington, D.C., his new home, the graphic and tactile affirmation of life amidst horror depicted so masterfully in Sarajevo Blues, turns into an eerie silence that permeates both the expanse of the land and the heart of the American empire.Praise for Semezdin Mehmedinovic´'s Sarajevo Blues:"A memorable literary achievement."-Library Journal"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"In poems, micro-essays, and prose vignettes, Semezdin Mehmedinovic´ charts the collapse of a world with clear-eyed passion for the truth that one finds in the young Hemingway, the Hemingway of In Our Time."-Paul AusterSemezdin Mehmedinovic´ was born in Tuzla, Bosnia in 1960 and is the author of five books. Mehmedinovic´ -arrived in the U.S. as a political refugee in 1996, and he is currently living in Alexandria, Virginia. 02 Following his depiction of Bosnia under siege in the much celebrated Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinovic´ now explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response... 08 "It consists of three sequences; two of them while purposefully understated, are as good as anything published in English this year... Alcalay's English never feels forced or rushed, and his very acute introduction articulates the book's underlying conceit perfectly." Publisher's Weekly *Starred Review 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100367210/images/87286100367210L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100367210/images/87286100367210S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100367210 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20030901 01 6.25 in 02 4.75 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20030901 01 02 9.95 USD