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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Nine Alexandrias

Nine Alexandrias

Mehmedinovc´, Semezdin
Alcalay, Ammiel

Paperback

Series: City Lights Pocket Poets

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 0872864235
ISBN13: 9780872864238
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 61
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.24 Width: 4.72 Depth: 6.38
Language: English

Translated from the Bosnian with an introduction by Ammiel Alcalay

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 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.

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