Poetry. Translated from the Albanian by Erica Weitzman. "In Erica Weitzman's resolute translation, Valentina Saracini's staccato-grammared voice sketches a double space--the pulsing emotional landscape of resistance, negation, revision, set in a particular place of trees, stones, gods, color, history. A subtle navigational chart to an inner coast of Albania we have not known of until now"--Natasa Durovicova. "This collection of Albanian poetry from Kosovo does a wonderful job of bringing a fascinating and important but little-known European literature to a broader audience. The translations are fluid and faithful, rendering beautifully in English both the sense and the sentiment of the original Albanian, which itself is deeply affecting"--Victor A. Friedman, University of Chicago.

Author City: Prishtina KOS

Valentina Saracini, born in Skopje, Macedonia, currently lives in Prishtina, Kosovo, where she is known both for her poetry and her work as a journalist and interviewer. She is an external contributor to Deutsche Welle, and a news reporter for RTK (Radio Television Kosova/o). She is the author of the poetry volume Exercising Loneliness; her work appears often in Albanian-language literary journals and anthologies. The poems translated in DREAMING ESCAPE are from her second collection, Vjedhnaje Enderrimi (2002)

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