Only the Nails Remain

Scenes from the Balkan Wars

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Christopher Merrill

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"Only the Nails Remain" 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 personal narrative takes the reader along on the author's journeys to all the provinces and republics of the former Yugoslavia. He travelled through Bosnia-Herzegovina, Coatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Vojvodina, as well as to Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Turkey. His journeys provide the narrative structure for an exploration of the roles and responsibility of intellectuals caught up in a decisive historical moment, many of whom either helped to incite the war or else bore eloquent witness to its carnage. This is a literary meditation on war and a portrait of the poetry, politics and people of the Balkans.

Author Biography:

Christopher Merrill is a poet and critic and is the author or translator of more than a dozen books, including the highly praised The Old Bridge: The Third Balkan War and the Age of the Refugee. He reviews regularly for the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. His writings have appeared in such publications as Sierra, Sports Illustrated, The Nation, DoubleTake, Orion, and The Paris Review. He holds the William H. Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Connecticut.

Release date NZ

October 23rd, 2001

Author

Christopher Merrill

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

416

Dimensions

142x219x23

ISBN-13

9780742516861

Product ID

2448980

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