{"id":7700,"date":"2021-05-03T18:43:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7700"},"modified":"2021-05-03T18:43:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:43:14","slug":"sheol-sheol-a-poem-by-alisa-velaj-translated-by-arben-p-latifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/sheol-sheol-a-poem-by-alisa-velaj-translated-by-arben-p-latifi\/","title":{"rendered":"SHEOL, SHEOL… A Poem by Alisa Velaj Translated by Arben P. Latifi"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHEOL, SHEOL..<\/strong>*
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\u00a0\r\nSongs sung to our lands. \r\nSongs of sorrow, screams, or sheer satisfaction, \r\nsung on our doorsteps.\r\n\u00a0\r\nSongs sung in foreign lands.\r\nTo those distant lands. \r\nSongs sung on doorsteps to those foreign lands, \r\nor songs of foreign lands on our doorsteps. \r\n(Everyone will, at some point, live a mental exile)\r\n\u00a0\r\nSongs, songs, songs\u2014endlessly; \r\nafter endlessness, yet another endlessness, \r\nwith different songs, \r\neven though still with the same screams...\r\n\u00a0\r\nNobody even thinks of migrating \r\naway from your catacombs, Sheol... \r\nNor away from your songs, either!\r\n\u00a0 \r\n*Sheol -the abode of the dead in early Hebrew thought.<\/em>\r\n  \r\nTranslated from Albanian by Arben P. Latifi<\/em>\r\n\u00a0  \r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\u00a0\r\n<\/pre>\n
Alisa Velaj has been shortlisted for the annual international Erbacce-Press Poetry Award <\/em>in UK in\r\nJune 2014. \r\n\r\nHer works have appeared in more than eighty print and online international magazines, including: \r\nFourW twentyfive Anthology <\/em>(Australia), The Journal<\/em> (UK), The Dallas Review<\/em> (USA), \r\nThe Linnet's Wings<\/em> (UK),The Seventh Quarry<\/em> (UK), Envoi Magazine <\/em>(UK) etc., etc., \r\n\r\nVelaj's digital chapbook \"The Wind Foundations\"<\/em> translated by Uk\u00eb Zenel Bu\u00e7papaj is published \r\nby Zany Zygote Review <\/em>(USA). \r\n\r\nHer poems are also translated in Hebrew, Swedish, Romanian, French and Portuguese. \r\nAlisa Velaj\u2019s poetry book \"With No Sweat At All\" <\/em>(trans by Uk\u00eb Zenel Bu\u00e7papaj) was published \r\nby Cervena Barva Press in 2019.<\/pre>\n
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Bio of translator<\/p>\n
Arben P. Latifi \u0336 born in 1961 in Kolonj\u00eb, Albania. A graduate of the History-Philology College, State University of Tirana [1985]; MA degree in English Language Arts & Teaching [Graduation thesis: “A Comparative Analysis of the Albanian Translations of “King Lear” and “Richard III” by Sk\u00ebnder Luarasi.”]Postgraduate studies in Diplomacy and International Trade [1987-88]. Teaching career comprises a wide range of locations [Albania, USA, Oman, China] and age groups [from young learners to adults]. Keen to the core principles of the art of translating and poetryspecifics, his distinct style reflects maximum-level accuracy and faithfulness to the original text message, while flexibly and reasonably going the extra mile to add to original merits via enhancement of cohesive interlingual flow, imagery, vocabulary, musicality…<\/p>\n
 
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SHEOL, SHEOL..* [A gender-free lament in plural] \u00a0 Songs sung to our lands. Songs of sorrow, screams, or sheer satisfaction, sung on our doorsteps. \u00a0 Songs sung in foreign lands. To those distant lands. Songs sung on doorsteps to those foreign lands, or songs of foreign lands on our doorsteps. (Everyone will, at some point, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,849,949,808,796,366,401,43,388],"tags":[852,18,136,874,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7719,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}