WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.350 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:00:02.350 --> 00:00:03.100 align:middle line:90% You know what. 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:08.500 align:middle line:84% I moved from Sarajevo after three horrible winters 00:00:08.500 --> 00:00:14.700 align:middle line:84% in the war, and I moved in Arizona in sunny place. 00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:19.330 align:middle line:84% And you know, I moved in paradise, you know. 00:00:19.330 --> 00:00:24.850 align:middle line:84% And I-- from first day I feel very good. 00:00:24.850 --> 00:00:25.360 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:25.360 --> 00:00:26.410 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:26.410 --> 00:00:29.560 align:middle line:90% In Phoenix for five months. 00:00:29.560 --> 00:00:34.810 align:middle line:84% And you know, I feel comfortable in the United States. 00:00:34.810 --> 00:00:40.510 align:middle line:84% From Phoenix I moved to DC, which is a mistake, OK. 00:00:40.510 --> 00:00:45.010 align:middle line:84% And I have some criticism of American politics 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:46.060 align:middle line:90% and-- you know. 00:00:46.060 --> 00:00:52.000 align:middle line:84% But I feel the United States is a place for me and my family. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:52.771 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:52.771 --> 00:00:55.593 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:00:55.593 --> 00:00:56.260 align:middle line:90% Well, thank you. 00:00:56.260 --> 00:00:58.740 align:middle line:90% Will you come down [INAUDIBLE]? 00:00:58.740 --> 00:00:59.240 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:59.240 --> 00:00:59.540 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:59.540 --> 00:00:59.850 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:59.850 --> 00:01:00.350 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:01:00.350 --> 00:01:02.570 align:middle line:90% I believe I-- 00:01:02.570 --> 00:01:06.440 align:middle line:90% I determine next year's-- 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:08.120 align:middle line:90% yeah, I will. 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:12.305 align:middle line:84% Arizona or California because I'm in love with west coast. 00:01:12.305 --> 00:01:16.650 align:middle line:90% 00:01:16.650 --> 00:01:20.760 align:middle line:90% I'm curious if you've begun to-- 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:22.690 align:middle line:84% you obviously speak English very well. 00:01:22.690 --> 00:01:25.130 align:middle line:90% Do you write in English at all? 00:01:25.130 --> 00:01:26.420 align:middle line:90% No. 00:01:26.420 --> 00:01:26.920 align:middle line:90% No. 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:31.150 align:middle line:84% My-- first of all, my English is horrible, you know. 00:01:31.150 --> 00:01:34.560 align:middle line:90% But my Bosnian was amazing. 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:35.730 align:middle line:90% Believe me. 00:01:35.730 --> 00:01:38.280 align:middle line:90% And I don't want to switch. 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.480 align:middle line:90% You know. 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:46.320 align:middle line:84% You know, one perfect instrument with my English-- my English. 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:47.070 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:01:47.070 --> 00:01:49.590 align:middle line:90% 00:01:49.590 --> 00:01:50.380 align:middle line:90% Yeah? 00:01:50.380 --> 00:01:52.402 align:middle line:84% Can you talk about which poems you 00:01:52.402 --> 00:01:55.159 align:middle line:84% chose to read in the original language 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:56.992 align:middle line:84% and which ones you chose to read in English, 00:01:56.992 --> 00:01:58.284 align:middle line:90% and how you made that decision? 00:01:58.284 --> 00:02:09.559 align:middle line:84% Because I chose poems important for me, and in my-- 00:02:09.559 --> 00:02:13.140 align:middle line:90% 00:02:13.140 --> 00:02:20.090 align:middle line:84% important for me and my connection with Arizona, 00:02:20.090 --> 00:02:21.820 align:middle line:90% you know. 00:02:21.820 --> 00:02:26.320 align:middle line:84% And that's just because of that, I chose that. 00:02:26.320 --> 00:02:30.670 align:middle line:84% Last one from "Sarajevo Blues" is last poem 00:02:30.670 --> 00:02:34.420 align:middle line:90% I wrote in Sarajevo before I-- 00:02:34.420 --> 00:02:44.200 align:middle line:84% date before I moved in Arizona, and other poems. 00:02:44.200 --> 00:02:49.450 align:middle line:84% In the last years I wrote many essays about my life 00:02:49.450 --> 00:02:56.530 align:middle line:84% in the United States, and before I came here, you know, 00:02:56.530 --> 00:02:59.410 align:middle line:84% I tried to prepare myself for the history 00:02:59.410 --> 00:03:03.530 align:middle line:84% because this trip is important for me. 00:03:03.530 --> 00:03:06.500 align:middle line:90% I recognize that in every-- 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:11.850 align:middle line:84% in all those essays, I have some connection with Arizona, 00:03:11.850 --> 00:03:12.350 align:middle line:90% you know. 00:03:12.350 --> 00:03:17.160 align:middle line:84% I spent just five months in Phoenix, 00:03:17.160 --> 00:03:21.270 align:middle line:84% but these five months are really important for me, 00:03:21.270 --> 00:03:26.580 align:middle line:84% because I have more friends in Phoenix for this 5 months 00:03:26.580 --> 00:03:32.200 align:middle line:84% then I have a friend in DC after years. 00:03:32.200 --> 00:03:32.700 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:03:32.700 --> 00:03:33.580 align:middle line:90% This. 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:39.500 align:middle line:84% And because of that I chose that one. 00:03:39.500 --> 00:03:40.000 align:middle line:90%