Teach Me How to Whisper: Horses and Other Poems

The works of Gjekë Marinaj, Albania's leading poet, have been praised, translated, published, and discussed in over twenty languages and countries. His most celebrated poem, "Horses," drew the attention of the dictatorship's censors when it was published and forced Marinaj to escape his country. Later, the poem became the anthem for the democratic forces that freed the country. He has won several of the world's most prestigious prizes for his poetry and criticism, but his remarkable body of...