Bekimi I Nënës / A Mother's Blessing

Within these pages, entitled "Bekimi I N n s, A Mother's Blessing," Jack Hirschman and Idlir Azizaj present a translation of Jusef G rvalla's poetry. This is the first time this collection, originally published by the Naim Frash ri Publishing House, in Tirana, Albania in 1983, is translated in the English Language. In 1983, a year after the original publication in his native Kosovo Albanian, Jusuf G rvalla, his brother Bardhosh, and comrade Kadri Zeka were allegedly murdered by the Serbian secret service in their exile in Germany. G rvalla was known as a journalist and a musician as well as a poet, novelist, and founder of the Marxist-Leninist group, the National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo. For the first time, Jusuf G rvalla's poetry, including selections from his three books: They Fly and Fall, Green Stork, and Sacred Marks, can be shared by the english speaking population.