<DIV><p>"These poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic 'making' is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making. We are lucky to have these English incarnations of Nikola Madzirov."?Li-Young Lee</p><p>Born 1973 in a family of Balkan Wars refugees, Nikola Madzirov's poetry has already been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. A regular participant in international literary festivals, he has received several international awards including an International Writing Program fellowship at the University of Iowa. <I>Remnants of Another Age</I> is his first full-length American collection and carries a foreword by Carolyn Forché who writes, "Nikola Madzirov's <I>Remnants of Another Age</I> is aptly titled, as these poems seem to spring from elsewhere in time, reflective of a preternaturally wise and attentive sensibility. As we read these poems, they begin to inhabit us, and we are the better for having opened ourselves to them. Madzirov is a rare soul and a true poet."</p><p><B>"I SAW DREAMS"</B></p><p><I>I saw dreams that no one remembers<BR>and people wailing at the wrong graves.<BR>I saw embraces in a falling airplane<BR>and streets with open arteries.<BR>I saw volcanoes asleep longer than<BR>the roots of the family tree<BR>and a child who's not afraid of the rain.<BR>Only it was me no one saw,<BR>only it was me no one saw.</I></p></DIV>