A Hand Full of Water
Will be published approx. on 20. December 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-935210-37-5 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Buffalo
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
178 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-935210-37-5 (9781935210375)
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Tzveta Sofronieva: A physicist and historian of science by training, Tzveta Sofronieva is the author of nine collections of poetry. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, she settled in Berlin, Germany in 1992. A Hand Full of Water was published in German in 2008. She is currently the Max Kade Writer-in-Residence at MIT in Boston. Chantal Wright: Chantal Wright is Assistant Professor of German and Translation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her translation of Tzveta Sofronieva's Eine Hand voll Wasser (A Hand Full of Water) was supported by an award from PEN American Center's 2009 translation fund.