| I Don't Believe in Ghosts Contributor(s): Zeqo, Moikom (Author), Miller, Wayne (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1934414018 ISBN-13: 9781934414019 Publisher: BOA Editions OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Albanian Published: November 2007 Annotation: Between 1970 and 1974, Moikom Zeqo wrote a collection of poems called Meduza that challenged the core tenets of Albanian socialist realism. When samples were published, Zeqo's work was denounced as "hermetic, with modern influences, dangerous, [and] foreign." Meduza was suppressed until 1995, after the collapse of the Albanian communist system. I Don't Believe in Ghosts gathers the best and most translatable poems from Meduza. Moikom Zeqo is Albania's former minister of culture and directed Albania's National History Museum. He now works as a freelance writer and journalist in Tirana. Wayne Miller teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he co-edits Pleiades. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 891.991 |
| LCCN: 2007001715 |
| Series: Lannan Translations Selections |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.65 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Between 1970 and 1974, Moikom Zeqo wrote a collection of poems called Meduza that challenged the core tenets of Albanian socialist realism. When samples were published, Zeqo's work was denounced as hermetic, with modern influences, dangerous, and] foreign." Meduza was suppressed until 1995, after the collapse of the Albanian communist system. I Don't Believe in Ghosts gathers the best and most translatable poems from Meduza. Moikom Zeqo is Albania's former minister of culture and directed Albania's National History Museum. He now works as a freelance writer and journalist in Tirana. Wayne Miller teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he co-edits Pleiades. |