Between 1970-4, in response to what seemed the dawning of a political and cultural thaw in Communist Albania, poet Moikom Zeqo began writing poems that pushed the limits of Albanian Socialist Realism. In Zeqo's words, these poems aspired to a poetry where "metaphors take off," where striking images emerge "through terseness and elipticism," where "identity becomes humanized, diverted from political vaudeville and poster-ism," where Albanian poetry rises "to join the poetry and art of Europe." After publishing a few cycles of these poems in periodicals, however, Zeqo was officially upbraided for producing work deemed "hermetic," "modern," "dangerous" and "foreign," and the full, unpublished collection, entitled Meduza (Medusa), was suppressed.
- ISBN:
- 9781934414002
- 9781934414002
- Category:
- Poetry by individual poets
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 15-11-2007
- Language:
- Albanian
- Publisher:
- BOA Editions, Limited
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 160
- Dimensions (mm):
- 236x160x20mm
- Weight:
- 0.44kg
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