{"product_id":"remnants-of-another-age-paperback","title":"Remnants of Another Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNikola Madzirov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Forché\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eCarolyn Forché\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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. \u003ci\u003eRemnants of Another Age\u003c\/i\u003e is his first full-length American collection and carries a foreword by Carolyn Forché who writes, \"Nikola Madzirov's \u003ci\u003eRemnants of Another Age\u003c\/i\u003e is 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I SAW DREAMS\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI saw dreams that no one remembers\u003cbr\u003eand people wailing at the wrong graves.\u003cbr\u003eI saw embraces in a falling airplane\u003cbr\u003eand streets with open arteries.\u003cbr\u003eI saw volcanoes asleep longer than\u003cbr\u003ethe roots of the family tree\u003cbr\u003eand a child who's not afraid of the rain.\u003cbr\u003eOnly it was me no one saw, \u003cbr\u003eonly it was me no one saw.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikola Madzirov: Nikola Madzirov (poet, essayist, translator) is one of the most powerful voices of the new European poetry. He was born in a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica, R. Macedonia. His poetry has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in US, Europe and Asia. In 2012, he was selected to represent Macedonia at Poetry Parnassus, an international celebration of poetry as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad in London. For his poetry book \u003ci\u003eRelocated Stone\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) he received the Hubert Burda European poetry award for authors born in East Europe (the jury was chaired by Peter Handke and Michael Krüger), and the most prestigious Macedonian poetry prize Miladinov Brothers at Struga Poetry Evenings. For the book \u003ci\u003eLocked in the City\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) he was given the Studentski Zbor award for the best debut, while for the collection of poems \u003ci\u003eSomewhere Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) the Aco Karamanov prize. According to his poetry two short films were shot in Bulgaria and Croatia. The contemporary jazz composer and collaborator of Björk and Lou Reed, Oliver Lake, has composed music based on Madzirov's poems which was performed at the Jazz-Poetry Concert in Pittsburgh in 2008. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNikola Madzirov has participated at many international literary festivals and events in US, Latin America and Europe and has received several international awards and fellowships such as International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa in US; Literarisches Tandem in Berlin; KultuKontakt fellowship in Vienna; Internationales Haus der Autoren in Graz; Literatur Haus NÖ in Krems and Villa Waldberta in Munich. He is one of the coordinators of the world poetry network Lyrikline. In June 2012, Madzirov was chosen out of more than 6,000 recommended poets to participate in the Olympic Poetry Parnassus in Southbank Centre, London, called the biggest gathering of poets in world history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarolyn Forché Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950. She studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University. Forché is the author of four books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eBlue Hour\u003c\/i\u003e (HarperCollins, 2004); \u003ci\u003eThe Angel of History\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Country Between Us\u003c\/i\u003e (1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and \u003ci\u003eGathering the Tribes\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). Among her translations are Mahmoud Darwish's \u003ci\u003eUnfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e with Munir Akash (2003), Claribel Alegria's \u003ci\u003eFlowers from the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), and Robert Desnos's \u003ci\u003eSelected Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (with William Kulik, 1991). Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1992, she received the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum. Carolyn Forché teaches in the MFA Program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779546382399,"sku":"9781934414507","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/remnants-of-another-age-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}