Poetry
Vallja e yjeve
Not translated into English
Lasgush Poradeci · 1933
Synopsis
The poet's first collection, made up of pieces of landscape, love and meditation. Nature holds first place in it, with its four elements, water, earth, air and fire; love is carnal as much as dreamed; reflection turns to creation and to death, accepted as a gift of the self. The tone is meditative, the language of a studied purity, and the forms are new for the Albanian poetry of its time.
Context
The collection appears in Romania in 1933, through the efforts of an Albanian writer of the colony, Mitrush Kuteli according to most sources, in the very year its author defends his thesis at Graz; one source says it was printed in Constanța. A second collection follows four years later. Both books draw on Albanian life, and critics note in them the purity of the language and the invention of new forms. Under the communist regime, the poet remains little studied in Albania, whereas critics in Kosovo, among them Sabri Hamiti and Kujtim Shala, devote studies to him.
Who it is for
Short poems in southern Albanian, in a pure language and a new form; no French translation.
Prizes and reception
Its author is regarded as the first modern poet of the nation; with his second collection, this book makes him one of the great Albanian lyric poets.
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