Negative Space

by Luljeta Lleshanaku

*Shortlist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize*

"Language arrived fragmentary / split in syllables / spasmodic / like code in times of war," writes Luljeta Lleshanaku in the title poem to her powerful new collection Negative Space. In these lines, personal biography disperses into the history of an entire generation that grew up under the oppressive dictatorship of the poet's native Albania. For Lleshanaku, the "unsaid,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811227529
• ISBN13: 9780811227520
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"