Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars 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 beautifully written and personal narrative takes the
reader along on the author's journeys to all the provinces and
republics of the former Yugoslavia--Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia,
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. What
separates this book-the first non-native literary work on the
conflict-from other collections of reportage, political analysis,
and polemic, is its concern for capturing the texture of particular
places in the midst of dramatic change-the sounds and sights and
smells, the stories and observations of victim and perpetrator
alike, the culture of war. Here is a literary meditation on war, a
fascinating portrait of the poetry, politics and the people of the
Balkans that will provide insight into the past, present, and
future of those war-torn lands. Hear an interview with the author
on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered, February 20th, "Balkan
Poets."
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