I DON’T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS   “Zeqo’s poems explode socialist realism with exuberant bursts or imagination. [. . .] Though Zeqo says, “I don’t want to overwhelm you with metaphors” it’s just one of the many playful ruses put on by this surrealist dreamer stuck in a land of repressive bureaucrats. Throughout this collection [. . .] he does nothing if not overwhelm with shimmering imagery. [. . .] Reminiscent of other rabble-rousing poets born mid-20th century in the Soviet Union’s shadow (such as Slovenia’s Tomaz Salamun and Poland’s Piotr Sommer), these poems reflect a particularly Albanian point of view[.] [. . .] [E]very poem crackles with life.”   —Publishers Weekly   Albanian-born poet Moikom Zeqo originally wrote the poems of I Don’t Believe in Ghosts in his collection Meduza, created circa 1970-74. His work challenged the core principles of Albanian socialist realism, and was therefore denounced as “hermetic, with modern influence, dangerous, [and] foreign” by the Fourth Plenary Session of the Albanian Communist Party. [. . .] Each poem in I Don’t Believe in Ghosts is presented in a two-page spread, in its original Albanian on the left and a superb English translation by Wayne Miller on the right. A creative, utterly mesmerizing poetry collection.   —Midwest Book Review