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19%OFFLuljeta Lleshanaku - Haywire: New & Selected Poems - 9781852249137 - V9781852249137
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Haywire: New & Selected Poems

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Description for Haywire: New & Selected Poems Paperback. Luljeta Lleshanaku is one of Albania's foremost younger poets with a growing reputation in the US and Europe. Haywire is her first British publication, and draws on two editions published in the States by New Directions. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Translator(s): Israeli, Henry; Qatapi, Shpresa; Lleshanaku, Luljeta. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250. New & Selected Poems. 160 pages. Luljeta Lleshanaku is one of Albania's foremost younger poets with a growing reputation in the US and Europe. Haywire is her first British publication, and draws on two editions published in the States by New Directions. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight: 250. Translator(s): Israeli, Henry; Qatapi, Shpresa; Lleshanaku, Luljeta.
Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. In Haywire she turns to the fallout of her country's past and its relation to herself and her family. Through intense, powerful lyrics, she explores how these histories intertwine and influence her childhood memories and the retelling of her family's stories. Sorrow, death, imprisonment, and desire are some of the themes that echo deeply in Lleshanaku's beautiful poems. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249137
SKU
V9781852249137
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About Luljeta Lleshanaku
Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in Elbasan, Albania in 1968. Under Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist dictatorship, she grew up under house arrest. Lleshanaku was not permitted to attend college or publish her poetry until the weakening and eventual collapse of the regime in the early 1990s. She was eventually able to study Albanian philology and literature at the University of Tirana, and ... Read more

Reviews for Haywire: New & Selected Poems
'Luljeta Lleshanaku is a pioneer of Albanian poetry. She speaks with a completely original voice, her imagery and language always unexpected and innovative. Her poetry has little connection to poetic styles past or present in America, Europe, or the rest of the world. And, interestingly enough, it is not connected to anything in Albanian poetry either. We have in Lleshanaku ... Read more

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