Only the Nails Remain Scenes from the Balkan Wars

by Merrill, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780847698202
• ISBN10: 0847698203
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-29
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars is a chronicle of poet and critic Christopher Merrill's ten war-time journeys to the Balkans from the years 1992 through 1996. At once a travelogue, a book of war reportage, and a biography of the imagination under siege, this beautifully written and personal narrative takes the reader along on the author's journeys to all the provinces and republics of the former Yugoslavia and surrounding countries. This literary meditation on war is a fascinating portrait of the poetry, politics and the people of the Balkans which will provide insight into the past, present, and future of those war-torn lands.

Author Biography

Christopher Merrill is a poet and critic and author translator He holds the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(2)
A Note on Pronunciation	xi	(1)
Maps	xii	(3)
Prologue	xv
Part I: August-September 1992	3	(102)
1 Journey	3	(14)
2 Pohorje	17	(12)
3 Ljubljana I	29	(20)
4 Triglav	49	(10)
5 Ljubljana II	59	(18)
6 Venice	77	(14)
7 Vilenica	91	(14)
Part II: December 1992-February 1993	105	(154)
8 Croatia	105	(32)
9 Dalmatia	137	(16)
10 Serbia	153	(32)
11 Montenegro	185	(22)
12 Macedonia	207	(18)
13 Kosovo	225	(12)
14 Flight	237	(22)
Part III: May 1993-April 1996	259	(106)
15 Sarajevo I	259	(14)
16 Sarajevo II	273	(20)
17 Mostar	293	(10)
18 Sarajevo III	303	(26)
19 Albania	329	(10)
20 Expedition	339	(14)
21 Barcelona	353	(12)
Epilogue	365	(8)
Glossary of Names and Terms	373	(2)
Select Bibliography	375
Index