Words: A Poem

Words “The name that can be named is not the eternal name.” — Tao Te Ching Putting it into words hides the essence of what it is, And yet I can’t stop striving to capture in words, that which I’ve known only in silence. It’s a losing battle,...

Hasan Aga’s Noble Wife and the Spirit of Her World

This paper was first published in the journal Herald of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (est. 1889) no. 53, year 2025, pp. 15-56, and it is republished here with the journal’s kind permission. The poem it discusses, known as ‘Hasanaginica’, which originated in the seventeenth century,...