The Daily Poem: What Are These Mountains Thinking About

For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Ismail Kadare was born in 1936 in Albania. He began his literary career in the 1950s as a poet, and has since written many collections. They have included Themes with Sun (1968), Time (1976), and Smiles on the World (1980). The complete poem appears in An Elusive Eagle Soars; an anthology of modern Albanian poetry, edited and translated by Robert Elsie, published by Forest Books and Unesco at pounds 12.95.