{"product_id":"child-of-nature-luljeta-lleshanaku-9780811218474","title":"Child of Nature","description":"In my house praying was considered a weakness, \u003cbr\u003e like making love.\u003cbr\u003e And like making love\u003cbr\u003e it was followed by a long night\u003cbr\u003e of fear, \u003cbr\u003e so alone with the body.\u003cbr\u003e --Luljeta Lleshanaku\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lleshanaku belongs to the first \"post-totalitarian\" generation of Albanian poets. \u003cem\u003eChild of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e is her second poetry collection in English. Here 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, poems that Peter Constantine has called \"contemporary classics of world literature.\" Of her work, Albanian novelist Ridvan Dibra writes, \"When you close her book, the images don't leave you. They cleave you open like a leopard's paw, and enter into you. Once inside they create their own life, a second life, vastly different from the original. What more can we expect from real poetry, from true art?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luljeta Lleshanaku\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811218473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811218474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Best Translated Book Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/2010 pg. 47","brand":"Luljeta Lleshanaku","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072801796351,"sku":"9780811218474","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23af6caa-404d-44cf-9168-9446c6b419a1.jpg?v=1685444018","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/child-of-nature-luljeta-lleshanaku-9780811218474","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}