Remnants of Another Age

by Madzirov, Nikola; Reid, Peggy; Reid, Graham W.; Horvat, Magdalena; Reed, Adam; Forche, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9781934414507
• ISBN10: 1934414506
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making. We are lucky to have these English incarnations of Nikola Madzirov."--Li-Young Lee Born 1973 in a family of Balkan Wars refugees, Nikola Madzirov's poetry has already been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. A regular participant in international literary festivals, he has received several international awards including an International Writing Program fellowship at the University of Iowa. Remnants of Another Ageis his first full-length American collection and carries a foreword by Carolyn Forche who writes, "Nikola Madzirov's Remnants of Another Ageis aptly titled, as these poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet." "I SAW DREAMS" I saw dreams that no one remembers and people wailing at the wrong graves. I saw embraces in a falling airplane and streets with open arteries. I saw volcanoes asleep longer than the roots of the family tree and a child who's not afraid of the rain. Only it was me no one saw, only it was me no one saw.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
After Us	p. 15
When Someone Goes Away Everything That's Been Done Comes Back	p. 17
I Don't Know	p. 19
Shadows Pass Us By	p. 21
The Hands of the Clock	p. 23
Many Things Happened	p. 25
The Sky Opens	p. 27
What We Have Said Haunts Us	p. 29
Flying	p. 31
When Time Ceases	p. 33
The Shadow of the World Passes Over My Heart	p. 35
Things We Want to Touch	p. 37
Revealing	p. 39
It Was Spring	p. 41
Perfection Is Born	p. 43
We Reveal the Times	p. 45
Awakening	p. 47
Fast Is the Century	p. 49
I Want Only That	p. 51
I Saw Dreams	p. 53
Presence	p. 55
Ruined Homes	p. 57
Thoughts on the Weather	p. 59
Everything Is a Caress	p. 61
What Is to Be Done?	p. 63
Usual Summer Nightfall	p. 65
New Lands	p. 69
Towns That Don't Belong to Us	p. 71
From Every Scar on My Body	p. 73
Before We Were Born	p. 75
Eras of Longing	p. 77
Two Moons	p. 79
Light and Dust	p. 81
Returning	p. 83
Outside of Time	p. 85
Days When One Ought to Be Alone	p. 87
Silence	p. 89
A Way of Existing	p. 91
An Involuntary Conquest of Space	p. 93
The One Who Writes	p. 95
Home	p. 97
Separated	p. 99
Acknowledgments	p. 101
About the Author	p. 102
About the Translators	p. 103
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