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Discovering Luljeta Lleshanaku
A while back, in my favorite new/used bookstore (lately defunct, I hate to say—more on that in a future post), I stumbled on Fresco: Selected Poetry of Luljeta Lleshanaku. Lleshanaku is Albanian, and what do I know about Albania? Absolutely nothing! So this discovery has been a double one: a country known as Illyricum in ancient times but dominated in the 20th century by brutal Stalinist regimes, and a young woman born to write poetry in an age of repression and transition.Read More