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A Guide to Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry in Translation

B O D Y — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Poet and translator Tom Phillips offers a guide to contemporary Bulgarian poetry in translation

B O D Y — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Drew Rollins and James Peake review four new books of contemporary Bulgarian poetry in translation. Edited by Clint Margrave.

B O D Y — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000

"The world is wide, and short on time"

B O D Y — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

"From now until the end of time, / I'll sing this song -- so listen, listen: / between my wings it's, oh, so empty"

B O D Y — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

"You think / partings are simple-- / one gets on the train / the other lies down on the tracks"

B O D Y — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

"My damp words fall to the floor, / lifeless and unwanted, / where they sizzle on the smoldering / embers of her grammar"

B O D Y — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

"Behind his back he hears a sound he expected: / the footsteps he remembers from a distant past"

B O D Y — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

"Not a pocket, but a little window, inward, backward, don't look,/ child, such terrible things happened there..."

B O D Y — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

"we stopped allowing ourselves the truth/a long time ago"

B O D Y — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

"I trust a blue whale."