Poetry
Albumi
Not translated into English
Fan Noli · 1948
Synopsis
Marches, songs, elegies and satires. One elegy mourns Luigj Gurakuqi, who died an outlaw, another Bajram Curri, in the cave of Dragobia. The song “Anës lumenjve” tells the lament of an exile before a country so close to the rivers of Europe and so far from her, then the hope of a people rising up. A barley-sugar sultan mocks the powerful, and the Passion supplies its figures: Christ, Barabbas, Moses on the mountain. The poet adds adaptations of foreign verse.
Context
The pieces first appeared one by one, Barabbas's march in 1928, “Anës lumenjve”, written in 1930, in 1943. The Vatra federation gathered them in Boston in 1948, with an introduction by Mitrush Kuteli on the national ideal, and a dedication to those who liberated the country. The poet's lists show that he wanted to gather there all his original poems, and to collect separately, under another title, those of the Passion. The collection mixes with the poems adaptations of American, Greek, Spanish and French poets.
Who it is for
Rhymed stanzas, often to the rhythm of marching, in southern Albanian, full of biblical and political allusions; no French translation.
Prizes and reception
His only collection of original poems, in which the author wanted to gather all his poetry; reissued in Boston in 2022.