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An Unruled Body
Ani Gjika
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Negative Space (Paperback)
Luljeta Lleshanaku; Translated by Ani Gjika
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Albania's Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living
under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxha's
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 of an image, bringing balance to the whole of a
composition, so enabling Lleshanaku to look back at the reality of
her Albanian past and give voice to those who could not speak for
themselves.Many of the poems are tied to no specific place or time.
Histories intertwine and stories are re-framed, as in her long poem
'Homo Antarcticus', which traces the fate of an inspirational
explorer who could adapt to months of near-starvation in sub-zero
Antarctica but not to later life back in civilisation, one of a
number of poems in the book relating to society's pressure on the
individual. Sorrow and death, love and desire, imprisonment and
disappointment are all themes that echo deeply in Lleshanaku's
hauntingly beautiful poems. Negative Space draws on two recent
collections published in Albania, Almost Yesterday (2012) and Homo
Antarcticus (2015), and follows Haywire: New & Selected Poems,
her first UK selection published by Bloodaxe in 2011, a Poetry Book
Society Recommended Translation which was shortlisted for the
Corneliu M. Popescu Prize in 2013. Negative Space is also a Poetry
Book Society Recommended Translation, and was shortlisted for the
International Griffin Poetry Prize 2019.
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We Fall Like Children (Paperback)
Xhevdet Bajraj; Translated by Ani Gjika, Alice Whitmore
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R258
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