The long awaited 2nd edition of from the warring factions brings back into print Ammiel Alcalay's book-length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, site of the massacre of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. This daring blend of lyric and document remaps the world we inherit, from native New England to the Roman Empire, from the Gulf War to Palestine and the Balkans. The late Adrienne Rich has called from the warring factions the "kind of poem I've been waiting to read." And in her new introduction, Diane di Prima writes "This book forced me to redefine my life." Accompanied by an extensive discussion between Alcalay and poet Benjamin Hollander, as well as a new preface by the author, this edition brings an essential text of the post-9/11 world back into the conversation.

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Poetics. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Featuring Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard, Louise Thompson, Lorine Niedecker, John Wieners, Charles Olson, Diane di Prima, Edward Dorn, Michael Rumaker, and Joanne Kyger...read more

Product Description: Poetry. While putting together a manuscript of work written between 1975-1990, Alcalay became dissatisfied with the notion of a "selected poems." As a response, he began to comb through photographs, correspondence, memorabilia, journal entries, and newspaper clippings from the era, and incorporated them into his book; the result is a personal investigation into the relationships of context to text, memory to nostalgia, and present attention to the multiple traces of the past...read more

Product Description: Enigmatic and multi-layered, Islanders is about finding one’s own hard-won truth. A young man’s indelible memories of the struggle to find intimacy—formative experiences like the ebb and flow of friendships, love, and ordinary workaday life—are viewed through a lens of nostalgic longing and hard-eyed realism as he attempts to come to terms with the past...read more

Product Description: This monograph accompanying the first retrospective of this important Canadian artist's career fills an large gap in contemporary art documentation. There are many reasons for Salloum's relatively low profile in his home country, including the non-commercial and interdisciplinary nature of his work (photography and video practices, collaborative, community-based work, curating and writing) and its extremely broad international focus...read more

Product Description: Haroun Soussan, narrator of Outcast and a Jewish convert to Islam, is a civil engineer and historian who’s just completed his life’s work, The Jews and History. The book opens with him getting an award from Saddam Hussein during the time of the Iran-Iraq war...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Between a Cadillac and a Valiant sitting idly in the snow, Ammiel Alcalay's SCRAPMETAL takes a provisional journey through the experience of work and the untangling of vampiric forces that sever life from our record of it...read more

Product Description: Translated from the Bosnian with an introduction by Ammiel AlcalayFollowing his depiction of Bosnia under siege in the much celebrated Sarajevo Blues, Semezdin Mehmedinovic´ now explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response to a cross-country journey by train in post 9-11 America, Mehmedinovic´’s Nine Alexandrias provides a poetry of witness and testimony of a very different order...read more

Product Description: Compelling poems from one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed of contemporary North African writers. Imprisoned for many years by the Moroccan authorities, Laâbi’s poetry is haunted by memories of torture and prisons and bears witness to his preoccupations with—and resistance to—the growing international sickness of state-supported inhumanity...read more

Product Description: Voted one of the Top 25 Books of 1999 by the Village Voice.As a poet, translator, critic, and scholar, Ammiel Alcalay has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New Republic, and Middle east Report, as well as for such literary journals as Grand Street, Conjunctions, and Paper Air...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A poet and journalist, Hukanovic was sent to a concentration camp in the Serb occupation of Prijedor. This memoir chronicles his experiences in the death camps of Omarska and Manjaca, as the patina of civilization was stripped away from victim and aggressor alike.

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A collection of personal vignettes focuses on the men, women, and children of Sarajevo who have remained in their war-torn city in order to live as close to normal lives as possible. By the author of Sarajevo: A War Journal. IP.

Product Description: 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 texts: Mula Baseskija's 18th-century Chronicle, about daily life in Sarajevo; The Dervish and Death, by Mesa Selimović; and short fiction by Isak Samokovlija...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Cross-Genre. Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. THE CAIRO NOTEBOOKS, a collection of travel writing by Ammiel Alcalay, blurs the lines between fiction, poetry, and documentation. "There is in what you hear of these CAIRO NOTEBOOKS the cruelty of compassion, the pain of love, the tearing apart of fateful encounters...read more

How to defend retirement money from the IRS is the main focus in this hard-hitting and practical book, which discusses Roth IRAs and pension laws, among other retirement options and issues.