New European Poets

by Miller, Wayne; Prufer, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781555974923
• ISBN10: 1555974929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-18
• Publisher: Graywolf Press

Summary

A major anthology spanning the diversity of the latest poetry to come out of Europe New European Poetspresents the works of poets from across Europe. In compiling this landmark anthology, Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer enlisted twenty-four regional editors to select 270 poets whose writing was first published after 1970. These poets represent every country in Europe, and many of them are published here for the first time in English and in the United States. The resulting anthology collects some of the very best work of a new generation of poets who have come of age since Paul Celan, Anna Akhmatova, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugenio Montale, and Czeslaw Milosz. The poetry inNew European Poetsis fiercely intelligent, often irreverent, and engaged with history and politics. The range of styles is exhilaratingfrom the lyric intimacy of Portuguese poet Rosa Alice Branco to the profane prose poems of Romanian poet Radu Andriescu, from the surrealist bravado of Czech poet Sylva Fischerova to the survivor's cry of Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya. Poetry translated from more than thirty languages is represented, including French, German, Spanish, and Italian, and more regional languages such as Basque, Irish Gaelic, and Sami. In its scope and ambition,New European Poetsis destined to be a seminal anthology, an important vehicle for American readers to discover the extraordinary poetry being written across the Atlantic.

Author Biography

Wayne Miller is the author of a book of poems, Only the Senses Sleep, and
co-translator of I Don’t Believe in Ghosts by Moikom Zeqo. Kevin Prufer is the author of four books of poems, including National Anthem.

Table of Contents

Bosnia And Herzegovina Mile Stojic

House on Ice

Ferida Durakovic

Paper Tea

Semezdin Mehmedinovic

War

Miljenko Jergovic

Feldwebel Zorn's Motorcycle

Senadin Musabegovic

Dawn at Auschwitz

Croatia Branko Males

Crystal

Anka Zagar

Journey

Branko Cegec

Eyes, Ears, Mirrors

Delimir Resicki

Radio

Kresimir Bagic

a house

Damir Sodan

Durruti 1936

Tatjana Gromaca

Like It When You Come Around with Your Friends

Slovenia Boris A. Novak

Uni-verse

Ales Debeljak

Cast Vote

Barbara Korun

Every Breath You Take

Uros Zupan

May

Ales Steger

The Returning of What Is to Come

Hungary Imre Oravecz

Soldier's Graves The Hole

Akos Szilagyi O!

You Think

BeLA BODOR What to Expect

Andras Petocz

The Lake at Dawn A Banal Poem

Subject: Love In Praise of the Sea

Flora Imre

Snow Covers the Garden

Slovakia Mila Haugova To Withstand Evil Alpha Centauri

DANA PODRACKa A Diary

Jozef Urban

Blow My Nose Inartistically

Ivan Kolenic Skin

Is a Wrapping of Bones

Robert

GaL fromEpigraffiti

Martin Solotruk

How to Endure the Sun if Not Tiptoeing

Czech Republic Ivana Bozdechova

Everyday Occurrence

Sylva Fisherova

The Only Place The Language of the Fountains Eggs, Newspaper, and Coffee

Petr Hruska

Door At the Claws

Petr Borkovec

We do what? We are involved in space

Katerina Pinosova

fromLake Poems

Katerina Rudcenkova

Yes, I live inside the piano

Nowhere

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