POEZIA E SIRTARËVE
THE POETRY OF DRAWERS

Summary/Abstract: Poetry, alike entire Albanian literature, during ideological times, had not willingly accepted the poetics of socialist realism, for creativity in itself involves freedom, while this kind of poetics was imposed to creators from outside. And despite the pressure to not depart from socialist realism, not uncommonly, during the reign of communist ideology, Albanian poetry has "transgressed" the limits of modern poetry, sometimes openly, and more often afar from the eyes of the public. Thus, in addition to poetry that was compelled to respect the norms of socialist realism, there was created a poetry that not only was out of the norms but also collided with these dogmatic norms on literature. The poetry of drawers, also called "clandestine" poetry, fills the void left by poetry of socialist realism over the half-century of dominance of dictatorship in Albania. Creators such as Zef Zorba, Mihal Hanxhari and Robert Prifti, who wrote during the time of communist ideology but did not publish, as well as other creators like Fatos Arapi who after the Fourth Plenum most of the writings created at a time locked in the drawers until the fall of communist ideology and with it its censorship.

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