Dreaming escape by Valentina Saraçini and translated by Erica Weitzman with Rudina Jasini, Flora Ismaili

This is poetry from Albania.

Dreaming escape by Valentina Saraçini translated by Erica Weitzman with Rudina Jasini, Flora Ismaili is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Albanian. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933254395E12.

Dreaming escape, by Valentina Saraçini, is a Albanian poetry collection from Albania, translated by Erica Weitzman with Rudina Jasini, Flora Ismaili, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008. It is a book drawn toward the tension between dream and flight, where escape is not only geography but a pressure inside the speaking self. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation, but the chance to let one poet’s particular difficulty create its own weather.

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