For Za Sarajevo

by Ammiel Alcalay (Editor)

Magazine. Bilingual Edition in English and Serbo-Croation. A tribute to Bosnia, FOR/ZA SARAJEVO includes first-person accounts of Sarajevo under siege; reports from ehthnically-cleansed villages; the first American appearance of War Journal , by award-winning journalist Zlatko Dizdarević; an interview with filmmaker Ademir Kenović; art from exhibitions in Sarajevo; and selections from classic Bosnian Mula Baseskija's 18th-century Chronicle , about daily life in Sarajevo; The Dervish and Death , by Mesa Selimović; and short fiction by Isak Samokovlija. Other contributors—Etel Adnan, Adonis, Jimmy Durham, Juan Goytisolo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Naomi Shihab Nye, Saskia Sassen, Alexis de Veaux—examine immigration and exile, identity and memory.

170 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Ammiel Alcalay (b. 1956) is poet, translator, critic, and scholar who teaches at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of, among other books, After Jews and Arabs (1993); the cairo notebooks (1993); Memories of Our Future (1999); from the warring factions (2002); Scrapmetal (2007); and a little history (2012). He was one of the initiators of the Poetry Is News Coalition, and helped to organize the Olson Now project. He has recently launched Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, a publishing venture whose mission is to retrieve and make available key texts falling widely under the rubric of the New American Poetry.