Anthology of wounds - Arct

JAMARBER MARKOAnthology of WoundsHe was born in Tirana in 1951.In 1974, he graduated from theUniversity of Tirana with a journalismdegree, but a year later he wasarrested and sentenced to aprison term of seven years foragitation and propaganda (a commonsentence for those the regimedeemed to have criticizedthe government). This was a bigshock not only for Jamarber, whohad begun to express openly his dissatisfaction towardthe Communist regime, but also for his father, the greatwriter Petro Marko.He was freed in 1979 and worked for some time as amaintenance worker in a brigade in Kinostudio. His passionhas been and is still now to write poems. He neverstopped writing.They were published in recent years in two volumes ofpoems that were valued much by critics and readers. Theshort article chosen for this anthology was written in 1984,but is published for the first time here and is a specialone in the experimentation of the poetic prose of JamarberMarko.Soul AuthorityI felt in love with my road on the horizon of whichlooked clearly the signs of a future a bit majestic. Althoughthe façade that I see I gave a majesty shadow.That time I still saved myself as the glorious beggar of107