Under Balkan Light

<p>Written during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia this book presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honours dignity and courage. The book starts with a tour-de-force the long poem 'Do vidjenje Danitsé' ('Goodbye Balkan Belle') and continues with a series of memorial tablets for victims of Jasenovac concentration camp. The book includes a sequence in memory of the Serbian Yugoslav and Mediterranean poet Ivan V. Lalic.<em> Under Balkan Light</em> forms the final part of Richard Berengarten's <em>Balkan Trilogy</em> and is published together with the first two parts<em> The Blue Butterfly</em> and <em>In a Time of Drought.</em> It is also the fifth volume in the series of his <em>Selected Writings.</em> Richard Berengarten used to be known as Richard Burns. With the publication of this book he now repossesses the family name of his father the cellist and saxophonist Alexander Berengarten.</p>