A Week in Sarajevo & Other Essays

A long-awaited collection of superb and distinctive essays moving between Ireland and the Balkans, often considering parallels between Belfast and Sarajevo in such well-known work as A Week in Sarajevo, Weather Report: Good Friday Week, 1998, Troubled Belfast, A Day with the VJ, The Ethnic Basis of Irish Poetry and The View from the Lagan. An immigrant and distinguished poet, Agee brings a unique perspective to life in Ireland and the Balkans with their communal and sectarian histories. Agee is a writer particularly concerned with the ethical imagination as exemplified by his poetic work of nonfiction Trump Rant, a nuanced exploration of authoritarian drift and thwarted democratic aspiration in a number of world-historical contexts, from Belfast to the Balkans to the formerly Confederate South. He divides his time between Ireland, Scotland and Croatia.