Abysses
Voragini
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It is time to raze your monuments to the ground and reestablish ours, to make our women shine again and to make yours cry, to presumption of our sons as soldiers and to bring yours to their knees, of our classy tuxedos and your rotten coffins. And it is unknown for whom the gods prepare the next bronze, the future marble, counseled by Mark Aurelio himself.
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Shpend Sollaku Noé’s poetry delves into meat, bone, and blood. He uses verses to pound on a stone to get at the truth; and he succeeds perfectly, coordinating style and synthesis. Before understanding, the reader feels. He sees himself in a forest without trees, praising the trees that are not there anymore, but through the force of the poetry, for a moment, the reader perceives the landscape as it was before the disappearance of the trees. Scenes, murals, puzzles that are fiction remind the reader of desolation, remorse, opaque hopes—“The empty apocalypse.”
About the Author
Noé is a great poet for necessity. He was a journalist for historical love. He was a teacher and literary man, who developed in underground where he read and studied books forbidden by the regimen. He didn’t study in a comfortable university library filled with sunlight. He was a politician by vocation and a martyr of suppressed freedom. Under a steamy and smoky torch and restless like Byron, Noé fought, in a friendly country, for the freedom of Albania, which was afflicted by the new political monism of the crypto-communist democratic party.
Supported by the most solid cultural, literary, philological, and musical preparation, as well as his scientific—in the sense of encyclopedic, polyglot, reckless nature—curiosity for instinct, acute intelligence, and an attentive mind to the philosophical, sociopolitical, and literary future, Noé has a very complex personality and is gifted with an intense human power.
Works of S. S. Noé.
Poetry:
- "The Sphinx" (1978) - censored by the regimen of Tirana
- "The Azure Colts" (1987) - published in Tirana.
- "Undressed for the Second Time” (1991)- prohibited the publication
- "The Reign of Prohibition" (1995) - Italy
- "To Applaud Caligula" (1997) – Italy
- "A place on foot to Galilea" (1999-2000) - Italy.
Inquiry books in prose:
- Balkan Colombia (1994) – Italy
- The Short Century of the Balkans (1994) – Italy
Translations from Albanian in Italian:
- "Suicide of the Leaves" - Italy, 1995 - poetry of Ferdinand Laholli.
- "Crowd’s Destiny" (1995) - Italy - poetry of Hajdin
Abazi.
- Selected poetry of J.Radi, V.Zhiti, F.Haliti, etc.