The poems are peculiar and sonorous in these translations, full of objects and souls, transformed and given wings in Chagall-like metaphor. Albania’s Luljeta Lleshanaku grew up in negative space, living under family house arrest during the years of Enver Hoxha’s autocratic communist rule. 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. We have in Lleshanaku a completely original poet. Might it even be inspiring? By Jacque Lynn with pictures by Lydia Nichols Her poetry has little connection to poetic styles past or present in America, Europe, or the rest of the world.
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Jah Najm
) It's bleak. And it is bloody. I enjoyed this book, and I read it quite fast. Yeager does a great job of giving the reader enough information to tell a story without spelling everything out for you.
Tyler Ohms
It is perfect. I went in without knowing anything, and that's an excellent way to go, but I realize not everyone approaches reading the way I do. It's dark. I've never read anything quite like Negative Space by B.
Justin Day
I throughly enjoyed this book and it’s earned it’s place in my collection. It's psychedelic.
But some inklings of relatability arise, rarely mind you. You know who you are. Yeager's Negative Space is by far the best book I have ever read. Yeager.
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