Death’s Homeland, by Dragan Draojlovic
February 22, 2011
-Trans. Stanislava Lazarevic´. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2008 The plain fact is that there is poetry after Auschwitz, however wounded it may be. An honest poem today must at least have windows open to the never-ending tragedy of our times. But windows imply a house, secure, protected, from which we look out. Dragan Dragojlovic´’s recent [...]
Nguyen Thuy Kha,A Time of Green Blood
February 22, 2011
-transl. Nguyen Than Xuan. Danang Publishing House, 2007 The story’s all too familiar: a man comes home after long years of war, remembering comradeship and suffering, ready for peace and love, only to find the transition far from simple. Even his blood remembers war: sweaty green fatigues, the pallor of faces marked by hunger and [...]