Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku
PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 Criticism and earthy honesty

and earthy honesty

The settler experience is powerfully captured in this imaginative exercise in resurrecting the dead

which form an integral part of her books

of sensual heat

one which refuses to adjust to the expectations of a society

Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku <br> <b> PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 </b> Criticism and earthy honestyAlbanias 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