Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku
PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 Criticism which form an integral part

which form an integral part of her books

knowing full well that if there is to be any relationship at all something must give in us

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

But they speak far beyond Caribbean experience

One of Scotland’s most celebrated poets

Negative Space by Luljeta Lleshanaku <br> <b> PBS Recommended Translation Spring 2018 </b> Criticism which form an integral partAlbanias 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