NEGATIVE SPACE

Language arrived fragmentary / split in syllables / spasmodic / like code in times of war, writes Luljeta Lleshanaku in the title p oem to her powerful new collection Negative Space. In these lines, personal biography disperses into the history of an entire genera tion that grew up under the oppressive dictatorship of the poets native Albania. For Lleshanaku, the unsaid, gestures make up the negative space that gives form to the woods / and to the mad woman?the silhouette of goddess Athena / wearing a pair of flip-flops / and an owl...[Read more]