Between 1970 and 1974, Moikom Zeqo wrote a collection of poems called
Meduza that challenged the core tenets of Albanian socialist realism.
When samples were published, Zeqo's work was denounced as hermetic, with
modern influences, dangerous, [and] foreign." Meduza was suppressed
until 1995, after the collapse of the Albanian communist system. I
Don't Believe in Ghosts gathers the best and most translatable poems
from Meduza.
Moikom Zeqo is Albania's former minister of culture and directed
Albania's National History Museum. He now works as a freelance writer
and journalist in Tirana.
Wayne Miller teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he
co-edits Pleiades.