Immigrant blues

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  • Auteur: Simić, Goran
    Contributor:

    Simić, Amela

    Résumé:

    Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic's Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public devastations of war, especially its effects on the emotions, thoughts and memories of exiled survivors. Simic's genius is to present this disturbing reality in terms so vigorous and humane that pain is mixed with the solace and pleasure of great art.

    Genre: Canadian poetry
    Original Publisher: London, ON , Brick Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781771313001

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    1771313005

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Simić, Amela

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Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic's Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public devastations of war, especially its effects on the emotions, thoughts and memories of exiled survivors. Simic's genius is to present this disturbing reality in terms so vigorous and humane that pain is mixed with the solace and pleasure of great art.

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Canadian poetry
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London, ON

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