āLanguage arrived fragmentary / split in syllables / spasmodic / like code in times of war,ā 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 poetās native Albania. For Lleshanaku, the āunsaid, gesturesā make up the negative space that āgives form to the woods / and to the mad womanāthe silhouette of goddess Athena / wearing a pair of flip-flops / and an owl on top of a shoulder.ā It is the negative space āthat sketched my onomatopoeic profile / of body and shadow in an accidental encounter.ā Lleshanaku instills ordinary objects and placesāgloves, used books, acupuncture needles, small-town train stationsāwith subtle humor and profound insight, as a child discovering a world in a grain of sand.
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