Only the Nails Remain

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Only the Nails Remain is written by Christopher Merrill and published by Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0847698203 (ISBN 10) and 9780847698202 (ISBN 13).

Merrill, a poet and journalist, spent much of the past decade traveling through the Balkans; here, in a powerful and enigmatic account, he chronicles those travels. Taking the title for his book from a piece by Slovenia's best-known living poet, Tomaz salamun, he tells a story of the war-torn region through the lives of its literary and cultural communities.