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LIGHTNING FROM THE DEPTHS
AN ANTHOLOGY OF ALBANIAN POETRY |
| By: |
Robert Elsie (Editor), Janice Mathie-Heck (Editor), Robert Elsie (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£46.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810124629 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810124622 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2008 |
| Series: |
Writings from an Unbound Europe S. |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Translated from: |
Albanian |
| Description: |
An English collection to present the range of Albanian verse from the early Christian traditions to the influence of Islam and the Ottoman Empire and from the beginnings of a modern tradition, quashed by the Stalinists. |
| Synopsis: |
If a people have no poets and no poetry of their own for a National Anthology, then treachery and barking will do the trick.With these words, a challenge is laid down. "Lightning from the Depths" is the first English collection to present the full range of Albanian verse from the early Christian traditions to the influence of Islam and the Ottoman Empire and from the beginnings of a modern tradition, quashed by the Stalinists, to today. All along this rocky path, poets have turned the political strife, poverty, and isolation their nation has often experienced into art. "Lightning from the Depths" opens readers' eyes to a world populated by artists who spin despair into poetry."The Albanians, god gave them nothing, not even grass. Only snakes and stones. But they did have something which the Almighty never discovered. They lived long and when they died, they died chanting oi oi oi. At each of their heads fell a plane tree split in two" - Ali Podrimja. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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