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Yugoslav RequiemYugoslav Requiem
Sample Passageyugoslav requiem it’s not what I’ve seen it’s what I’ve not seen it’s always looking round at where you’ve been the man at the road-block demands a cigarette at home he beats his wife today for the first time she puts her headscarf on she thinks of her son her muslim man who works in the fields listens intently to the sky his father taught him that he also learned how you kill someone who used to be your friend or neighbour and about četniks hitler and ustašas and this land is mine and I’m in charge I work the clay the you lot and they the we and them the we know our own kind it’s not what I’ve heard it’s what I’ve not heard it’s the tone of a word .....
© Arnold Jansen op de Haar 2002
© Translation: Paul Vincent 2009 This poem was featured in Arnold Jansen op de Haar's performance at the Poetry Cafe. You can also listen to the author reciting yugoslav requiem on YouTube.
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ISBN: 978-1-907320-01-9Number of pages: 51 Price: £8.99 Order this book Find out more about the author  What was said about Yugoslav RequiemPoems from this collection have been included in numerous anthologies.
Among them Gerrit Komrij’s Nederlandse poëzie van de 19de t/m 21ste eeuw, main Dutch poetry anthology (Bert Bakker) and
De 100 beste gedichten van 2002, The 100 Best Poems of 2002 (edited by professor Gillis Dorleijn, Arbeiderspers). |
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