Death's Homeland

By Stanislava Lazarevic and Dragan Dragojlović

Dragan Dragojlovic's poetry captures the horror of the civil war and acts of genocide that ravaged his native Yugoslavia. He tells the truth in startling images and expresses the resilience of the human spirit even in the midst of despair. As he asks in one poem, "What are we to do with so much grief?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931896453
• ISBN13: 9781931896450
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Curbstone Press
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Poetry rooted in the horrors of the civil war that recently plagued Yugoslavia

Award-winning author Dragan Dragojlovic presents Death's Homeland, a cruelly serious anthology of poetry rooted in the horrors of the civil war that recently plagued Yugoslavia. The title of Death's Homeland is quite literally descriptive of its contents; these are not poems for the faint of heart, as they speak of acts of genocide - yet also pay testimony to the strength of the human spirit amidst an onslaught of despair. Superbly translated from the original Serbian by Stanislava Lazarevic, Death's Homeland is a somber yet welcome addition to international poetry collections. "The Space of Infinity": I used to be a man / who played with his hopes / at night, / hiding behind his dreams / during the day. // The limits were around me, / infinity was within. // Now I am silent so I cannot witness / how every gunshot, / each new death, / constricts the space of my infinity, // chasing me into a kernel, / as the void grows / bigger and bigger.