"Bitter Grass was written in 1976 while I was in my last year of
high school in the city of Lushnje in Albania. It was refused by N.
Frasheri, the government publication house in Tirana. According to
the censor, 'the texts in this collection do not deal with the
theme of our socialist village; the hero of the poems is a solitary
person who flees from his contemporaries, from the Association of
Pioneers, from reality; moreover, the transformations that
socialism has brought to the countryside under the guidance of the
Party are entirely absent...' At that time, the collection had the
title Diary of the Wood. I translated the texts from Albanian into
Italian in 1999. Two years later, in 2001, the work was published
for the first time in Italy. This new publication has been expanded
and includes new texts in respect to the first edition. Offering
these poems to readers, it's as if I were going back many years to
the icy and inhospitable winter of the Albanian dictatorship where
I began my journey as a poet." -Gezim Hadari
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