Following his depiction of Bosnia under siege in Sarajevo Blues , Semezdin Mehmedinovic now explores the vast space of his new continent. Mostly written in response to a cross-country journey by train in post 9/11 America, Mehmedinovic’s Nine Alexandrias provides a poetry of witness and testimony of a very different order. In this nightmarish and exhilarating odyssey, his political acuity is displayed everywhere but barely pronounced.