Jeanne Larsen’s first book James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita, won the AWP award competition in poetry. She has since published three novels– Silk Road, Bronze Mirror and Manchu Palaces–and two books of translations, Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao and Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women’s Poems from Tang China. She teaches at Hollins University….
Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919. His collection of concentration camp stories, entitled Moments of Reprieve, will be published this winter in Ruth Feldman’s translation, by Simon & Schuster. Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz, is the author of several important novels depicting the extermination of the Jews. All these poems here are from At an…
Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world’s foremost fiction writer. Heinemann has published two of his books, Midaq Alley and Miramar, and is preparing his vast trilogy, the first volume of which, Between two Castles, was scheduled to appear last fall. Alleways, written in 1975, is the story of a boy growing up in the Cairo of 1919 to 1930, the…
Kerry Shawn Keys’ roots are in the Appalachian Mountains. From 1998 to 2000, he taught translation theory and creative composition as a Fulbright Associate Professor at Vilnius University. He has dozens of books to his credit, including translations from Portuguese (Requiem, Ledo Ivo, 2011) and Lithuanian, and his own poems informed by rural America and…
Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. Besides books from Dolmen Press, Dublin, in association with Oxford University Press, and from Wake Forest University Press, he has published translations from the Irish, including the Iron-Age prose epic The Tain (1969) and Poems of the Dispossessed 1600-1900 (1981). He also edited the New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, with all…
Karl Krolow is the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry. He has also written criticism and fiction. His translations from the French, Spanish, and occasionally American, are distinguished by wide literary culture and immaculate technique. Krolow lives in Darmstadt, West Germany.
George Kalogeris is the author of a book of poems based on the life of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer, 2006). He is currently working on a collection of translations entitled Dialogos.
James Kenneson’s fiction, non-fiction and satires have appeared in Harper’s, Commonweal and elsewhere. His translation of Fountain and Tomb by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz will be published this fall by Three Continents Press. He lives in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
Author of 9 books of poems, most recently Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House, 2004) Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland Poetry Press, 2003), Heartwall (UMass, 2000 Juniper Prize), Svetovi Narazen (Slovenia, 2001). A limited edition small press book, Falling Stars: A Collection of Monologues (Flagpond Press, 2002) and Richard Jackson: Greatest Hits (2004),…
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