New and Selected Sorrows Author:Goran Simic New and Selected Sorrows draws on Goran Simic's earlier collections, notably Immigrant Blues, Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman and From Sarajevo with Sorrow, together with a new sequence, `Wind in the straight-jacket' and many poems published in English for the first time. It is a book about passports and borders, rats and wolves, soldiers and... more » ghosts. It is a record of the realities - and the unrealities - of life in the Balkans, narrated by `an ordinary man with ears of ordinary silk', whose sees the face of sorrow in `the Sarajevo wind leafing through newspapers / glued to the street by a puddle of blood'.« less