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Book SynopsisA fresh voice from the Balkans by an award winning poet from Albania, Lleshanaku’s
Child of Nature explores her country’s past in intense and powerful lyrics.
Trade Review"[H]er gentle poems are subtle and rarely polemical, as they dwell on her past... in the end, we feel blessed that Ms. Lleshanaku has invited us to 'the takeoffs and landings/on the runway of her soul.'" -- Dana Jennings - The New York Times
"Lleshanaku's verse offers allegory with a twist, rationality tinged with romance that makes no promise of deliverance." -- Peter Moysaenko - Bomblog
"Lleshanaku does not dwell on the harsh past and the brutal climate she knew as a child. Rather, she celebrates the variety of new experience, filling her verse with powerful imagery and stark, surprising visions." -- Multicultural Review
"She is a love poet…. She makes explicit what it means to live in a violent and corrupt public world which penetrates privacy and betrays every intimacy." -- Allen Grossman
