The Bosnia Elegies (Paris Press)

The Bosnia Elegies (Paris Press)

Adrian Oktenberg
$10.95
Publication Date: January 1st, 1997
Publisher:
Paris Press
ISBN:
9780963818355
Pages:
64

Description

Adrian Oktenberg breaks the media-induced numbness of war and makes it impossible to resist or deny the genocide in Bosnia

Adrian Oktenberg breaks the media-induced numbness that surrounded the war in the Balkans, and makes it impossible to resist or deny this genocide. Echoing the voices of Charlotte Delbo, Walt Whitman, Cavafy, Tory Dent, Carolyn Forche, and many others, this collection presents the duality of the brutalities and experiences of war beside life in an American landscape marked with the ripening tomatoes of summer and news of devastation in foreign cities with unpronounceable names.

About the Author

Adrian Oktenberg (1947-2014) is the author of Swimming With Dolphins, two chapbooks, and numerous essays that appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Revie, The Women's Review of Books and collections of literary criticism

Praise for The Bosnia Elegies (Paris Press)

"These poems take the passion of anger and the clarity of narrative into the silences and evasions of history. They seek no peace. And, rightly, they allow the reader no peace." EAVAN BOLAND

"Adrian Oktenberg tears down our defenses and forces us to confront the terrible human realities of the minor war in Bosnia. An artifact that is as important a human document as a poetic one." BOOKLIST

"I hope teachers will discover this book and use it." THE IOWA REVIEW

"Adrian Oktenberg's vision is vivid, haunting. Describing the beauty of a tomato or the systematic destruction of a people. Raw, torturous, tender." KITTY TSUI

An important and heartbreaking book of poems.” LAMBDA BOOK REPORT

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