Semezdin Mehmedinovic - March 23, 2005

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
Semezdin Mehmedinovi?

Semezdin Mehmedinović reads poems from Sarajevo Blues (1998) and Nine Alexandrias (2003).

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Introduction
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by Theresa Sotto

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Opening Remarks and "Corpse"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"Loss"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"Corpse"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"August, 1989"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"Alifakovac"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"Stranger"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"Deserter"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"A Martyr's Resting Place"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"Kids"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"War"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"Datumi"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo blues: pojmovnik opsjednutog grada. Ljubljana: Vodnikova domacija, 1993.

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"Dates"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Sarajevo Blues. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998.

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"Nine Alexandrias"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"Sufism"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"Pound"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"East and West"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"Functions of the Heart"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"JFK"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"Myth and Text"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"Moorish Fountain"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"Open Dialogue"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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"For the Sorrow of a Continent"
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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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Excerpts from "This Door is Not an Exit"
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"In one of those parking lots in McLean..."; "In the garden of a restaurant in a reddish colored..."; "Desolate February morning, I stumble..."

Citation

Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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Excerpts from "This Door is Not an Exit"
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"I stop brooding as soon as I..."; "I never had a house of my own..."

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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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Excerpt from "This Door is Not an Exit"
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"Ramona and I fold sheets in the..." Read first in the original Bosnian, then in English translation.

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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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Excerpt from "This Door is Not an Exit"
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"At the fish market on the Potomac I think of my..." Read first in the original Bosnian, then in English translation.

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Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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Excerpt from "This Door is Not an Exit"
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"The sun went down right..." Read first in the original Bosnian, then in English translation.

Citation

Mehmedinovic, Semezdin. Nine Alexandrias. Trans. Ammiel Alcalay. San Francisco: City Lights, 2003.

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Question and Answer Session 1
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Question and Answer Session 2
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Question and Answer Session 3
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Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Photographer
Christine Krikliwy
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