Thank you, Teresa.
I didn't expect a huge audience.
Well, thank you very much.
When I moved from Sarajevo, I moved to Phoenix, Arizona,
and I spent the five months in Phoenix, Arizona.
And I feel that Arizona is like my birth
place in my second life, and I feel really good to be here.
OK.
I will read a couple of poems from Sarajevo Blues, published
by City Lights and translated from the Bosnian
by Ammiel Alcalay.
Good translator, and good friend.
"Corpse."
"We slowed down at the bridge to watch
some dogs tear a corpse apart by the river, and then we went on.
Nothing in me has changed.
I heard the crunch of snow on their tires,
like teeth biting into an apple.
And they felt the wild desire to laugh with you
because you call this place hell, and you flee from here,
convinced that outside Sarajevo does not exist."