{"product_id":"9781942281498","title":"The Black Box of My Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n\" calibri\u003eIn the final months of Xhevdet Bajraj’s life, he produced\nnearly 300 poems, writing exclusively in his native Albanian, not employing the\nlanguage of Mexico — the country of his exile — as he had sometimes done. This book\nis the first of a trilogy dedicated to these poems.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\" aptos\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n\" calibri\u003eHe had given the manuscript a title:\u003cem\u003e Angelus Novus\u003c\/em\u003e, after\na monoprint by Paul Klee. Walter Benjamin interprets it like this: “A Klee\npainting named 'Angelus Novus' shows an angel looking as though he is about to\nmove away from something he is fixedly contemplating . . . His face is turned\ntoward the past . . . where he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling\nwreckage upon wreckage . . . The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and\nmake whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has\ngot caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close\nthem.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\" aptos\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n\" calibri\u003eBajraj contemplated Kosovo fixedly and added to his gaze the\nsuffering he witnessed in his place of refuge. Unrest is the essence of his\nwork, unrest and dislocation, but his poetry does make whole, and as if to\nawaken the dead. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:\" aptos\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n\" calibri\u003eThis series bears a name borrowed from an earlier poem: COFFIN\/ When I die\/ I hope they will look\/ for the black\nbox of my life\/ among my poems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Egret","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65127392575837,"sku":null,"price":11.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781942281498.jpg?v=1788912562","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/9781942281498","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}