Tag: Marinaj; Gjeke
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Professor and Student Cross the Balkans for Poetry
June 23, 2011 - In 1990, Gjekë Marinaj was fleeing through the mountains from his home country of Albania into the former Yugoslavia. He was being pursued by Albanian secret police with tracker dogs. Marinaj’s crime: writing a poem. “Horses” was a thinly veiled satire on the totalitarian oppressive system of the time. The same day the poem was printed […]
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