Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku
PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 Carol Ann Duffy war poet Edward Thomas was

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Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other

Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku <br> <b> PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 </b> Carol Ann Duffy war poet Edward Thomas wasAlbanias Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxhas autocratic communist rule. Her recent poems are a response to what was missing then, not only in her life but for her whole generation, evoking absences, emptiness what was unseen, unspoken or undone through the concept of negative space. The space around objects, not the objects themselves, becomes the real, most significant part