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Article: Sarajevo Blues
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- Poetry
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- April 1, 2005
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I left Sarajevo in the winter of 1992, a couple of months before the siege began, and after some wandering I ended up in Chicago. When the war started, I watched the news and read the papers compulsively, for I needed every bit of information to understand what was going on in my hometown. But those stories were reductive and cold, aimed at the marginally interested American public, and not even the infrequent letters and phone calls from my friends and family could help me comprehend the situation. The letters were reluctant to complain, and the phone calls stuck to basic facts and gossip: who was killed, who was wounded, who went to the other side, only occasionally exposing me to the ...