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New from Mundus Artium Press: Albanian Laureate Channels Mountains, Seas, Legacies
In selecting him for this role, Albania’s Ministry of Culture noted Marku’s “rich and coherent work, beyond historical, political and geographical contexts,” to express “what is stable in man,” as well as his “valuable service to national culture in bringing many masterpieces of world poetry into Albanian.”
“Mountains Entering,” Marku’s English-language debut, is based on his latest Albanian book, “The Inner Circles,” acclaimed in his country as one of the best poetry collections ever published in the language.
Tantalizing and broodingly philosophical, “Mountains Entering” reflects the expatriate author’s restless spirit, shaped by his Balkan homeland’s natural beauty, ancient heritage and perennial tensions, as well as by his deeply personal dialogue with world cultural canons.
Integrating his influences in a life of wandering, Marku combines sensitivity, imagination and craft, vividly charting reconnections of the past and present, the everyday and sublime.
In haunting Marku’s mind, his untamed mountains and Homeric seas appeal to us as well, insisting on entering our souls and dreams at will, inspiring and instructing us in penitence and purpose, in the sadness and solitude of uncompromised being.
Following criticism in a Communist plenum on art and literature, Rudolf Marku’s first volume of poetry (My Friends, 1973) was removed from circulation and its author banished to the countryside.
He edited Tirana’s only literary newspaper, Drita (The Light), from 1987 until the end of 1991, when historic upheaval saw the collapse of Albanian Communism and the closure of many of the country’s cultural institutions.
As Drita’s editor, Marku introduced many new and previously ostracized writers to the public. His brief service at his country’s United Kingdom embassy ended in the wake of Albania’s 1997 Socialist coup. He currently resides in London, another key setting in his work.
The first Albanian to translate Eliot, Pound and Auden, Marku has published eleven books of poetry and five novels of his own. Both modern and classic in outlook, his work transcends specific literary eras.
The writer himself views Sappho, Ovid and Dante as our contemporaries as much as Eliot, Plath, Ginsberg and other poets not yet published.
A bracing testimony from a stranger in strange lands, this timeless collection will travel well and find a home with its audience.
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David R. Stewart has published "Camp Grampy: An Adventure With Grandchildren," a book built around a four-day summer gathering he and his wife, Nancy, started for their grandchildren after Stewart retired.
The idea, according to the announcement, grew out of a practical problem: grandchildren living in different cities who barely knew each other as cousins. Stewart and his wife set a recurring window each summer, picking the children up on a Sunday and returning them the following Thursday, timed around his Rotary Club schedule. Over time, that logistical arrangement became a standing family tradition with a name of its own.
Stewart draws on a background in sports, board games, and youth mentoring through scouting and Sunday school programs, according to the announcement, and he and Nancy built Camp Grampy around crafts, games, and activities modeled on traditional summer camp. The book states that children needed to be at least five years old to participate, a threshold set so everyone attending could take part in the full program. The family now includes eleven grandchildren, per Stewart.
"This book represents our family’s joy in building lasting memories and demonstrating to our eleven grandchildren that they matter," Stewart said in the announcement. "We wanted to show other families how accessible these meaningful experiences can be when approached with love and creativity."
The publisher describes the book as offering grandparents and extended families a model for building their own recurring traditions, framed around the argument that intentional, structured time together can carry weight beyond an ordinary visit. "Camp Grampy" was published by Christian Faith Publishing and is available in paperback and through major retailers including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Play, and the Apple iTunes Store.
Studio CarryOnHarry sees this as part of a familiar shelf of grandparent memoirs turning a family ritual into a template for others, and that’s exactly the kind of book that tends to find its readers by word of mouth rather than headlines.
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