Full Description
A unique anthology of poetry and prose extracts by Roma writers from 20 countries interwoven with a chronology of the history of the Roma since their departure from India in 997 AD to the repeal of the last US law discriminating against Roma in January 1998.
Contents
"Roads of the Roma", Leksa Manush (Latvia); chronology; "The Price of Liberty" (prose extract), Mateo Maximoff (France); "Tramps", Dezider Banga (Slovak Republic); "Without House or Grave", Rajko Djuric (former Yugoslavia/Germany); "Allegory", Sterna Weltz-Zigler (France); "The Long Road", Saban Iliaz; "If I Say Love I Give a Name", Jose Heredia Maya (Spain); "Son of the Wind", Alexian Santino Spinelli (Italy); "Gypsy Soul", Nadia Hava-Robbins (Czechoslovakia/USA); extracts from untitled verse, Papusza (Poland); "Son of the Invisible People", Alexian Santino Spinelli (Italy); "The Gypsy from India", Nicholas Jimenes Gonzalez (Spain); "As the Pelicans", Osztojkan Bela (Hungary); "Ode to the 20th century", Leksa Manush (Latvia); "Django", Sandra Jayat (France); extracts from - "A Red Foundling Strolls Into This Dream", Mariella Mehr (Switzerland); "Justice", Alexian Santino Spinelli (Italy); "Give Me a String to Play On", Djura Makhotin (Russia); "Ars Poetica", Andro Loleshyte (former USSR); "Minarets of Grass", Dezider Banga (Slovak Republic); "Seeing if There's Something That Makes Me Good For Nothing", Jose Heredia Maya (Spain); "I'll Sell You My Tears", Maya Maximoff (France); "I Was Born in Black Suffering", Saban Iliaz (Skopje); "I Remember a Child", Paula Shops (Italy); "Only Ashes Remain", Bairam Haliti (Croatia); "The Apparition of Choxani", Luminita Mihai Cioaba (Romania); "The Terror Years", Rajko Djuric (former Yugoslavia/Germany); "A Wedding in Auschwitz", Rajko Djuric (former Yugoslavia/Germany); "The Wooden Rose", Hester Hedges (England); "Up the Chimneys", Charlie Smith (England); "White Snows Fall on Belarus", Valdemar Kalinin (Belarus); "New Rom", Jimmy Story (Australia); "I am the Common Rom", Geoffrey Dufunia Kwiek (Poland/USA); "The Bosnian Tragedy", Gjunler Abdula (Skopje); "The Raid", Alexian Santino Spinelli (Italy); "Inside Me the Wind Howls", Margita Reisnerova (Slovak Republic/Belgium); "The Stone", Chrissie Ward (Ireland); "From Prayer of an Impious Father and Gypsy Mother", Rajko Djuric (former Yugoslavia/Germany); "My Father, God Be Good To Him" (prose extract), Chrissie Ward (Ireland); "You Smug Bastard", Ian Hancock (England/US); "Green, Yellow, Blue, Red Are the Colours of My People", Nadia Hava-Robbins (Czechoslovakia/USA); "We Did Not Break Our Century-Old Drums", Alija Krasnici (former Yugoslavia); biographies.
