Barcodes
Codici a Barre
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Go, people,crawl as stingy crooks, to kiss the hands of piteous Godfathers, to lick the feet of bank administrators, to tear the knees in delirium toward the Sacred Appearance, to whip the evil from the skull, to engrave bleeding snakes on the back. May eternal be the prayer: Our Bank that art in land...
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In this English and Italian edition,Shpend Sollaku Noé stands up as Dante Alighieri of the twenty-first century: there are no pits or circles of hell in his poem, but his vision is equally terrifying. Reading Barcodes, we feel more than damned, real puppets who move around the world-hell where, instead of flames, there are computers, loans, envy, image obsession, false religion, lack of culture, fabrication of history, unscrupulous bureaucracy, corruption, and incivility.
About the Author
Shpend Sollaku Noé is an Albanian professor, journalist, and, above all, Poet with a capital P (to distinguish him from ever more frequent charlatans and sellers of fake poetry), has lived in Italy as a political refugee since 1992. He collaborates with important newspapers and magazines, and his works are translated into several languages. S.S.Noé actively works for the protection of human rights, both for migrants and for exiled politicians.