Across the River : On the Poetry of Mak Dizdar.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I. The Text beyond the Text -- Prologue -- 1. The Poet -- 2. Roads -- 3. The Word -- 4. Man -- 5. Heaven -- 6. Earth -- 7. The City -- 8. The Praised -- 9. The House -- 10. Judgment -- 11. I and You -- 12. Incompleteness -- 13. Message -- Epilogue -- II. Across Water -- Prologue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nobody Knows -- 3. Beyond the Hills -- 4. From Noon to Night -- 5. Across the Haws -- 6. Beyond All Mind -- 7. Down There Below -- 8. From Depth to Depth -- 9. To Where The Cock-Crow Is Not Heard -- 10. From Good to Bad -- 11. Wide and Deep -- 12. A Hundred Winters -- 13. About Its Length -- 14. A Dark Blue River -- 15. We Need to Cross -- Epilogue: The Perfect Man -- Annexes -- A. The Poet -- B. Coagulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The work of Mehmedalija GMakG Dizdar (1917G1971) is the cornerstone of modern Bosnian literature. His work blends influences from Bosnian Christian culture, Islamic mysticism, and the cultural remains of medieval Bosnia. The first part of this book focuses on DizdarGs collection Stone Sleeper. It argues that in his poetry Dizdar turns to spiritual resources suppressed during the time of communism, though few have been able fully to understand the traditional content of his post-traditional form. Rusmir MahmutcGÿehajicGÿ introduces readers to this traditional substance in the context of what he calls Gperennial philosophy,G showing how in DizdarGs poetry prophetic wisdom and poetic pronouncement exist inseparably. In the second part, MahmutcGÿehajicGÿ traces, in a discussion of DizdarGs mystically influenced poem GBlue River,G the perennial questions of how we are to discover or realize the human self in relation to God as Creator.

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