A Hand Full of Water Contributor(s): Sofronieva, Tzveta (Author), Wright, Chantal (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1935210378 ISBN-13: 9781935210375 Publisher: White Pine Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - German |
LCCN: 2012031169 |
Series: Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Listen carefully. . . . She has something to say.--Joseph Brodsky Tzveta Sofronieva's poetry sparkles. Her memories go from Homer and Dostoyevski to Charlie Chaplin's dance steps. Above all Sofronieva is a mythological poet. Each narration is a Cavafian voyage, never completed in order to wonder. The lucent version by Chantal Wright captures the verse and fluid images of Sofronieva's poetry--Willis Barnstone, judge Tzveta Sofronieva was born in Sofia in 1963 and lives in Berlin, Germany. She is the author of eight poetry books and a short story collection, and was the winner of the first Cliff Becker Prize for Translation. This bilingual English/German collection is Sofronieva's first in the Untied States. Chantal Wright is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |