Across the River
On the Poetry of Mak Dizdar
Publication Year: 2011
Published by: Fordham University Press
I. The Text beyond the Text

9. The House
In his Word on earth, the Sleeper speaks of Mile´, that Bosnian place whose name may mean milost (mercy) or mir (peace). Whenever we find ourselves facing beauty, it appears to us first as peace and mercy. In this encounter, we first relax and then tense in an impulse toward what has appeared in beauty and mercy. Both...
II. Across Water: A Message on Realization

2. Nobody Knows
Absolute obscurity is such that it cannot even be known to itself—for if it were, it would not be absolute. But if it is absolute, can it be what it is without disclosing itself to itself? The absolute invariably demands both obscurity and disclosure, dissimilarity and...
Annexes
E-ISBN-13: 9780823247417
Print-ISBN-13: 9780823231683
Print-ISBN-10: 0823231682
Page Count: 192
Publication Year: 2011
OCLC Number: 742517402
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