Howl on the Horizon

Author(s): Eronita Kqiku / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2021

The publication of Howl is an important date in American literature, because - as a lexicon of obscene words and as a work of political and social revolt - it changed the course that poetry had previously taken. This article is an interpretation of how it was criticized on publication, and accordingly offers a register of words, evidence of ‘scandal’ and comment on a literary phenomenon. With the piece focusing on the horizon of expectation - a term devised by H. R. Jaus - the title itself reflects how Ginsberg was perceived in his time: a howl on the horizon.

The Dark Side of Art

Author(s): Ag Apolloni / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2021

In this analysis, Donika Dabishevci’s poetry is discussed, which communicates with the reader through primordial signs of love. This kind of communication is not only defiant but scandalous for two reasons: first, because of the extreme erotism; second, the gynocentric articulation. So, not only for what and how the poet says it, but even because it is said by a female, by a woman. While the motives and style are artistic and cultural choices, the positioning of the speaker’s voice is constructed on biological and natural grounds. Through the structure of oneiric signage, the poet disturbs, experiments, and rejects schemes and standards in language, literature, and society.

Ledia’s poetic fiber

Author(s): Primo Shllaku / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2021

Ledia Dushi is one of female poets who had started poetry early, when she was still quite young. For the sake of the truth, and the results by general reflections on this group and particularly on Ledia, we distinguish that the latter is guided by another literary and aesthetically object, driven by lesser socially and family matters, lesser demands of freedom, and does not demonstrate revolt that comes from an inferior condition. Ledia seems to have the freedom, too, that she has finished within herself in the most discreet and personal way that gender revolution, started historically from the Albanian women since 1940.

The art of ambiguity

Author(s): Sherif Luzha / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2021

In this article is analyzed Lindita Ahmeti’s poetry which differs by the high level of figurativeness, which expands and is shaped within a vast network of references. These references, in broad lines, are divided into three types: 1. References from mythology, 2. References from history, and 3. References from culture. Ahmeti is an accomplished poet whose poetry has the essential characteristics that a genuine poet should have, such as sensitivity, linguistic baggage, motivation of symbolic words, the unique construction of poetics, or the ability to build a poetic identity, these characteristics that place Lindita worthy among the most appreciated Albanian poets.

Manjola’s unique world

Author(s): Agron Tufa / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2021

Manjola Brahaj has created a world so absolutely separated, such a clear distinct artistic identity. She manages to differ from every other poet, not only of her generation but of her predecessor too. Her verse cannot be mistaken for any other poet with this collection. Her poems are satiated with a "surrealist hunger": the images swell, the mirage fly and tears through the tremble curtain of the transcendental realities to be thrust like a hot spear in the heart of the torturous mystery.

Poetry and revolt

Author(s): Besnik Jaha / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2021

Ilire Zajmi’s poetry is rooted in the circumstances of the life of the Albanian woman and sometimes emerges as pain, sometimes as protest, sometimes as suffering, and sometimes as pride. Through her poetic verse, Ilirja becomes the woman’s voice in her four main stages: as a girl, as a teenager, as a bride, and as a woman. And she strongly protests against tradition that oppresses women’s freedom, which in many verses appears to us as a victim of national, religious, and modern obscure.

Pół żartem, pół serio, czyli kłopot z Owidiuszem

Author(s): Elżbieta Wesołowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 47/2023

The paper is focused on the problem of translating the difficult fragment of Ex P. IV 12 where the name of the addressee Tuticanus gives the obstacles because of the form of his name. The paper proposes three trials of showing the sense and humor inserted in the text.

Дионис

Author(s): Ivan Granitski,Ivan Marazov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

И българин винаги остава

Author(s): Petar Andasarov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2024

Salamandră

Author(s): Dan Sociu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2024

Salamandră (fragment)

„Literatūros lankai“: dialogas su lenkų poetais

Author(s): Laimutė Adomavičienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 45 (50)/2024

The article explores the translations of Polish literary publications in the Lithuanian Exile Literature Magazine Literaturos Lankai (Literary Folios, during the period 1952–1959). Like many of its contemporaries, Literaturos Lankai expanded the scope of foreign literature in its pages through translations. The staff of the magazine continued the Lithuanian tradition by presenting Polish poets related to Lithuania: Czesław Milosz (1911–2004) and Julian Tuwim (1894–1953). New readers were introduced to the poetry of the Polish exile Jerzy Pietrkewicz (Peterkiewicz) (1916–2007) whose writings so far have been almost not translated into Lithuanian. In exile, translator Juozas Kėkštas (1915–1981) played a pivotal role in disseminating of Milosz’s highlighting his multifaceted talents as a poet, prose writer, and literary critic. Milosz offers to break out of the feelings and impressions in Chalk Circle poetry, seeking a language that reflects epic consciousness and new forms of expression. The works of Polish authors published in Literatūros Lankai reflect the ‘pulse of the time’, revealing a disturbed lyrical subject and an ongoing quest for new artistic forms. The translations of Polish literature strengthened the literary and cultural connections between Lithuania and Poland.

The Screaming Thing: A Material Ecocritical Exploration of Trauma in Aleksandrs Pelēcis’s Poems

Author(s): Artis Ostups / Language(s): English Issue: 45 (50)/2024

This article investigates the intersection of trauma studies and new materialism, offering a fresh perspective on human trauma through the prism of nonhuman forces. Drawing inspiration from material ecocriticism, a paradigm that evolved from materialist and posthumanist ideas and has not yet been brought into contact with trauma studies, the article underscores the significance of considering the embodiment of experience, thus arriving at an extended notion of trauma. This new theoretical framework is tested by examining the testimonial poetry of Latvian writer Aleksandrs Pelēcis, who was deported to Siberia by Soviet authorities in 1946. His poems employ inanimate objects and animals to create metonymical and metaphorical connections between human and nonhuman actors within the context of long exile. By illuminating a shared experiential space, Pelēcis manages to project and diffract traumatic feelings and memories, thus making them more comprehensible to his readers. This, in turn, places trauma studies on a trajectory away from the traditional conceptualisation of the inexpressible and the awkward.

BETWEEN THE LABYRINTH OF THE LIBRARY AND THE GRAMMAR OF LIVING. NOTES ON THE CRITICISM AND POETRY OF ION POP

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): English Issue: 37/2024

Ion Pop's critical readings follow the path of the dialogue with the work, in a dialectic of identification and distance: personalized "calligraphy", as a form of a critical exercise's escape from the tutelage of excessive rationalization, is illustrated in both sections of the book: studies dedicated to a writer, a favorite topos or a literary orientation. The abyss of the perspectives of metaphysical temporality, or of the agonic timbre, gives Ion Pop's poems a game of multiple perspectives, with voices that interweave, with mediations that refuse to mediate, an ambiguous game of time and of coming out of time, in which beauty is salvation and detachment, and the poem becomes a 'reportage' of the continuous dispute between the seen and the unseen.

AN INSIGHT INTO GEORGE TOPÂRCEANU’S POETRY APPROACHED VIA BACHELARD’S AESTHETICISM

Author(s): Clementina Alexandra Mihăilescu,Stela Pleșa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

For approaching George Topârceanu’s poetry in terms of imagery, cultural and natural symbols and his highly imaginative poetic space, Gaston Bachelard’s aestheticism focused on the dimension of intimacy will be employed as a methodological device to decode its intricate meaning.

THE HAIKU POEMS WRITTEN BY CORNELIU TRAIAN ATANASIU: PARTICULAR FEATURES

Author(s): Irina-Ana Drobot / Language(s): English Issue: 37/2024

The purpose of this paper is to analyse a specifically Japanese type of poem, namely the haiku poem, based on the way it can be so adaptable not only to other cultures, but to various personalities of its authors, resulting in distinct styles. While we can consider the haiku poem to be too small and too much bound by rules to be creative with it, we can be surprised at the rich variety of such poems, next to its depth of meanings, which can be drawn based on concrete reality elements, starting from free associations as in psychoanalysis. We put together the key elements present in the haiku poems and arrive, as its readers, to unexpected, deep, abstract, philosophical meanings. The author of the present paper will analyse from the point of view of reader response criticism, based on her own experience with the haiku community led by Corneliu Traian Atanasiu, a selection of his poems. She will also rely on her knowledge of Japanese culture mindset and traditions. It can be surprising to see how, from concrete, literal images present in haiku poems we can build philosophical, deep meaning.

POSTMODERN ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY: MARY OLIVER AS A MODEL

Author(s): Hussein K. Al-Askari,Mohammed Yahya Sahib Alhgam / Language(s): English Issue: 37/2024

This paper delves into the intersection of postmodern environmental concerns and American poetry through an exploration of the work of Mary Oliver as a leading exemplar. In a time marked by rapid technological progress and ensuing environmental crises, poets are increasingly using literature to voice their worries about humanity’s connection with the natural world. The analysis focuses on Oliver’s portrayal of nature and her examination of humanity’s role within it. Through her use of vivid imagery, sensory experiences, and empathetic observations, Oliver forges a connection between the reader and the environment. This research contributes to the literary field by examining the link between postmodernism, American poetry, and environmental concerns, using Mary Oliver as a compelling example. By studying Oliver’s poetic techniques and her profound engagement with environmental issues, this study underscores the importance of poetry in nurturing ecological awareness and advocating for a sustainable future.

TRAIAN CHELARIU – HISTORY PAGES

Author(s): Luminiţa IPATE (CĂŞUNEANU) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 37/2024

To talk about Traian Chelariu and his works is to talk about a memorialist from Bukovina, whose writings must be wholy presented to the readers, not only for the fact that he enjoyed the recognition of certain literary critics and historians (Eugen Simion, Nicolae Manolescu, Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu, Mircea A. Diaconu, Gheorghe Grigurcu, Alexandru Dima etc), but also for the statement according to which the reading of his work brings forward a ”life heroically lived” in a fizzy cultural environment, the inter-war Bukovina, but also during a tough period of time, when writers and their work were limited due to the ideology of that time.

Mes souvenirs au monde

Author(s): Marguerite Bruno / Language(s): French Issue: 32/2023

As with photography, whose image – incomprehensibly lost – shows a time frozen in the immensity of a desert, words are lost once written. (Love) stories always end badly, sing The Rita Mitsouko. In general, poetry lives in an ephemeral world. It therefore ends up being eternal, which makes it enigmatic, and magnificent.

Domy przyszłości. Paralele pomiędzy futurystyczną poetyką i architekturą – na wybranych przykładach z twórczości Wielimira Chlebnikowa

Author(s): Ksenia Dubiel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2024

The subject of the article is to investigate the influence of futuristic architectural concepts on the work of the Russian cubofuturist Velimir Khlebnikov. The theme of the presence in the poet’s formal poetry of elements convergent with an organic tendency in design and architecture, developed in the circles of Russian constructivists, is of particular importance here. The research material consists of both poetic and journalistic-prose texts, in which the author directly refers not only to urban architecture, but also shows a deep understanding of the essence of the phenomena of the city and home. The research showed the relationship between the form of the text and its semantic potential in imaging urban space. The work in its empirical part is focused on theoretical and literary research, with particular emphasis on the analysis of versification patterns of poems.

Ali Khan Mahmudabad: Poetry of Belonging. Muslim Imaginings of India 1850–1950

Author(s): Maria Casadei / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2023

Review of: -Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Poetry of Belonging. Muslim Imaginings of India 1850–1950, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2020., 344 pp., ISBN 9780190121013 (Paper)