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Elegy for a South Imagined
出版University Press of the South, Incorporated, 2023-03-11
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralFiction / General
ISBN19527994739781952799471
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xbK5zwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋It is the author's autobiography. 'Nostalgia connects me to my roots, which feel as intimate as the stuff of dreams. To grasp this elusive connection, I search the internet for a poem I loved as an adolescent, a poem that renders it best: "Grief for the South," T'ga (or Taga) za Jug. Konstantin Miladinov, a poet claimed by both Macedonia and Bulgaria, wrote it in Moscow, where he studied at the turn of the twentieth century, shivering with consumptive fever and dreaming of his southern homeland. In the cold winter of Russia where the sun "darkly shines" and the fog engulfs him, he dreams of growing eagle wings so he could fly to his beloved "South" to see the limpid waters of lake Ohrid, to play his flute in the lush greenery of his native land, to fly over the beautiful city of Stambol and to die under the splendor of the setting sun. Miladinov did indeed return to die in Istanbul, but jailed for subversive political activities. As I am reading his verse, I follow him in his flight and longing.'