Heart of Darkness

About the author

Christopher Merrill has published four collections of poetry, including Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; several edited volumes and works in translation; and four books of nonfiction. He directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Summary

Ferida Durakovic refused to leave Sarajevo when the bombs began to fall. Having seen her home and library bombed, she invokes in her poems the icons and myths of a troubled people caught between the two dominant religions of Europe. The first English-language collection by one of Bosnia's most promising young poets shows us how when the world is narrowed by guns, one's field of reference widens so much that "everything hurts."

Product details

• Authors: Ferida Durakovic
• Assisted by: Greg Simon (Editor), Christopher Merrill (Introduction), Zoran Mutic (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9781877727917
• ISBN: 978-1-877727-91-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 132 g
• Series: Terra Incognita; Terra Incognita Series; Terra incognita; Terra Incognita Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies