Child of Nature

A 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.

In my house praying was considered a weakness,

like making love.

And like making love

it was followed by a long night

of fear,

so alone with the body.

—Luljeta Lleshanaku

Lleshanaku belongs to the first “post-totalitarian” generation of Albanian poets. Child of Nature is her second poetry collection in English. Here she turns to the fallout ...