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  title info:
    title: Called by distances
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Obradović, Biljana D. (Biljana Dragoslav)
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 88 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In Called by Distances, her fifth collection of poems, Biljana D. Obradović looks back at a life that includes surviving the demise of her native country from civil war, the loss of her parents in the same year and displacement from Hurricane Katrina. Her poetry reflects on loves and deaths, travels from New Orleans to other parts of the world, and adjusting to American culture, often accompanied by a feeling of not belonging anywhere. She examines these experiences through poems that draw on all her roles, as a woman, a lover, a writer, a teacher, a mother, creating a portrait of an artist who struggles to persevere, despite life's setbacks. Written mostly in free verse or with established forms, Obradović's poems witness negative aspects of history, the loss of distant family members, natural disasters and the Covid pandemic. As in "The Dream that Keeps Returning," where she writes, "They blend / I can't hide. I don't blend," Obradović resists the call merely to assimilate, and instead carves her own, unique path, across the distances, continuing to dream.
  note: Biljana D. Obradović.
  classification: PS3565.B59 C35 2026
  classification: 811/.54
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    title info:
      title: Southern messenger poets
  identifier: 9780807185865
  identifier: 0807185868
  identifier: 9780807185988
  identifier: 9780807185971
  identifier: 2025045762
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 251120
    record change date: 20260213173406.8
    record identifier: in00005684378