Table of Contents
Maps xii-xv
Introduction 1
Give me wings 9
Longing for the South 11
Part 1 Spring
Ochrida hangs on a hillside 25
Macedonian Girl 27
Biljana washed her linens 45
Whose Are You? 47
Lake Ohrid 75
Across the Lake 77
Girl of the waves 97
One Thousand Seven Hundred Years 99
I knew this rock 115
The Keeper of the Black Madonna 117
Swaying between joy and sorrow 133
Roads 135
The valley where we lived 151
The Poetry and the Hunger 153
We are the remnants of another age 177
Besa 179
The lake is a crystal 201
Mountain of Bones 203
Part 2 Autumn
In the village 225
Poets of Pogradec 227
The streaks on their faces 249
Libertà 251
Lake Prespa and Little Prespa 265
Vale of Ghosts 267
The king had goat ears 297
Of Men and Islands 299
I saw everything clearly now 313
The Howl 315
A man was tormented 357
How to Heal the Insane and the Melancholy 359
Acknowledgements 373
Glossary 375
Epigraph Sources 377
Bibliography 379