Lightning from the Depths

ISBN: 9780810124622

出版社: Northwestern Univ Pr

出版年: 2008-2

页数: 176

定价: $ 53.05

装帧: HRD

内容简介

"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 in this new volume of Albanian poetry. Albania, however, has a dynamic tradition of literature. "Lightning from the Depths" is the first English collection to present the full range of Albanian verse. Albanian literature has had many lives. The early Christian traditions disappeared as Islam and the Ottoman Empire took over. Muslim literature, too, withered when the nation strove to become an independent European country. The beginnings of a modern tradition were quashed by the Stalinists. All along this rocky path, poets have turned the political strife, poverty, and isolation their nation has often experienced into culture, both celebrating and questioning the society in which they live. "Lightning from the Depths "opens readers' eyes to a new political and cultural world populated artists who can spin despair into poetry.