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BIOGRAPHY: Poet, prose writer and essayist Rifat Ismaili was born on March 24, 1968 in Durrës, Albania. From 1991 until today he lives in Italy, currently in Savona. Passionate about art and literature, he started to write and paint from school. Since 1986, it has been published in newspapers and magazines of the time and continues today. At the same time, in addition to working as an author, he was and is also engaged in translations, pronouncing authors such as Bukowski, Antonio Skarmeta, etc. His work has been published in Italian, English, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek, etc., in some of the literary bodies of those countries. To be underlined is the involvement in dozens of different publications as an editor or reviewer. Rifat Ismaili is the author of many books in different literary genres, both for adults and for children.
He is the publisher of the anthological magazine Gjurmë Penash, which includes local and foreign authors.
Additionally, he also publishes the international magazine for literature and art, Kryefjala.
ESCAPE FROM THE EVERYDAY
Who is the most perfect escape from the boring everyday, from the monotony of the same place and the same sky, which covers you day and night?
Is the spirit of adventure enough?
the magic of the book, the different worlds that unfold in front of you, would they fill that void that is created and the impression that your life has lost meaning or motivation, and something else would shake you, to reevaluate what you had or have yet?
would a little bit of Rambo’s poetry and rebellion be enough to shake us from our sleep? Or a walk with Bukowski in search of women and fortune? Even if you co-authored some stories about nightlife?
or seeking the paths of the soul’s meeting point with the sublime, a walk through the land of Buddha, Confucius, or Rum would have been more reasonable?
or would you search for Borghese, and find him in a library as large as a city, ask him if he got enough of all this borrowed knowledge into his head?
Or would you rather be away from the book world, looking for more fun alternatives?
Elvis Presley, for example, would lure with his almost divine music and throwback to those years?
Would that be enough?
Would it be enough to be in the streets and cafes of Paris with the painters who made styles, currents, works and history?
or none of these, but a flowing and calm rain in a field, where you, without an umbrella and without the opportunity to protect yourself, throw yourself into the arms of nature and pray to her like a saint? or the hidden desire to be like Odysseus, running away on voyages across the seas and boats of hope, with the desire to return triumphant one day, more virtuous and enriched in your consciousness and conscience?
or would it be better to meet love again, in the midst of the jungle of metropolises, roads and lights, under the image of a human being, but who could also be an angel, or the Greek gods themselves, specially incarnated in earthly forms for you seduced, devoured the soul and enslaved?
How many elements, how many scenarios and existential and spiritual nature would come to your feet, come to your aid, and save you from the boredom of everyday life. But would all this be enough?
Rifat ISMAILI Savona 7- 5- 2023
