| Child of Nature Contributor(s): Lleshanaku, Luljeta (Author), Israeli, Henry (Translator), Qatipi, Shpresa (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811218473 ISBN-13: 9780811218474 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2010 Annotation: Clear, strong, disconcerting images from a leading voice of the new Albanian poetry. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 891.991 |
| LCCN: 2009031746 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.35 lbs) 108 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In my house praying was considered a weakness, like making love. And like making love it was followed by a long night of fear, so alone with the body. --Luljeta Lleshanaku Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. Child of Nature is her second poetry collection in English. Here she turns to the fallout of her country's past and its relation to herself and her family. Through intense, powerful lyrics, she explores how these histories intertwine and influence her childhood memories and the retelling of her family's stories. Sorrow, death, imprisonment, and desire are some of the themes that echo deeply in Lleshanaku's beautiful poems, poems that Peter Constantine has called "contemporary classics of world literature." Of her work, Albanian novelist Ridvan Dibra writes, "When you close her book, the images don't leave you. They cleave you open like a leopard's paw, and enter into you. Once inside they create their own life, a second life, vastly different from the original. What more can we expect from real poetry, from true art?" |
Contributor Bio(s): Lleshanaku, Luljeta: - The author of seven poetry collections, Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in Elbasan, Albania, in 1968, and grew up under house arrest during Enver Hoxha's Stalinist regime. She has worked as a teacher, literary magazine editor, journalist, screenwriter, and currently is the research director at the Institute of Studies of Communist Genocide in Albania. |