Poetry
As në tokë as në qiell
Not translated into English
Din Mehmeti · 1988
Synopsis
A collection in five cycles: the brave men of my song, the white beasts, the memory of letters, hold fast my boat, song for myself. The poet takes up the figures and symbols of the folk poetry of the mountains of northern Albania, but to express an individual unease rather than a protest. The title, neither on earth nor in heaven, names a state of suspension, that of the Albanian of Yugoslavia.
Context
The collection was published by Rilindja in Pristina. The title of the fourth cycle comes from a poem, “Dialogue with the Lake”, written in Struga, on the shore of Lake Ohrid, during the Poetry Evenings of August 1987; critics see in it the symbol of the presence of Albanian letters in Yugoslavia. Critics link this poetry to the revolt of Migjeni and Mekuli, tempered by a romantic breath. A French anthology, Il est temps, was published by Buchet-Chastel in 2006.
Who it is for
Poems in Albanian, with no French translation of the collection; the 2006 anthology offers a way into the author.
Prizes and reception
Elsie counted him among the best-known classic representatives of contemporary Kosovar poetry.
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