{"product_id":"fresco-luljeta-lleshanaku-9780811215114","title":"Fresco: Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku","description":"\u003cem\u003eFresco: Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku\u003c\/em\u003e introduces to English-speaking readers the arresting work of Luljeta Lleshanaku, one of Albania's foremost younger poets. Born in Elbasan in 1968, she grew up under virtual house arrest because of her family's opposition to the Stalinist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. She was not permitted to attend college or publish her poetry until the weakening and eventual collapse of the Communist regime in the early '90s. She is among the first generation of poets to emerge out of the cultural wasteland of enforced socialist realism in the arts, reinventing Albanian poetry almost entirely from scratch. In a voice at once firm yet quiet and spare, with haunting imagery that challenges the imagination, her highly charged poems carry the burden of her own and her country's past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For \u003cem\u003eFresco\u003c\/em\u003e, editor Henry Israeli has gathered fifty-seven poems from Luljeta Lleshanaku's published books (\u003cem\u003eThe Sleepwalker's Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e, 1992; \u003cem\u003eSunday Bells\u003c\/em\u003e, 1994; \u003cem\u003eHalf-Cubism\u003c\/em\u003e, 1996; \u003cem\u003eAntipastoral\u003c\/em\u003e, 1999) as well as some newer work. His Afterword places her writing within its personal and social context, while an Introduction by the award-winning translator Peter Constantine views the poet from the wider perspective of modern Albanian literature. The poems themselves are translated by Henry Israeli in collaboration with the author and Uk Zenel Bucpapa, Noci Deda, Joanna Goodman, Alban Kupi, Albana Lleshanaku, Lluka Qafoku, Shpresa Qatipi, Qazim Sheme, and Daniel Weissbort. Many of the translations have appeared in such magazines as \u003cem\u003eGrand Street, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Seneca Review, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eQuarterly West\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luljeta Lleshanaku\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811215113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811215114\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 04\/17\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.34w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/25\/2002 pg. 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2002 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/25\/2002","brand":"Luljeta Lleshanaku","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130136457471,"sku":"9780811215114","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36838f10-8235-4dcc-961d-bd22c7ad3728.jpg?v=1687467764","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fresco-luljeta-lleshanaku-9780811215114","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}