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Wednesday, September 20

Hekate

 

Hekate

Anna Glazova

translated from the Russian

by Alex Niemi


26 pages, paper, staple-bound.

Toad Press/Veliz Books, 2023. $6.00

Cover design: adapted from a botanical drawing of yellow wolfsbane from the NYPL Digital Collections.

You can purchase a copy of Hekate from Veliz Books.
 

Anna Glazova is a prominent poet, scholar, and a laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize. She has published six books of poetry and received her PhD in German and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University (USA). She translates from German and English; among the authors she has translated are Franz Kafka, Unica Zürn, Walter Benjamin, and Emily Dickinson. She lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Alex Niemi is a writer and translator from French, Russian, and Spanish. She is the translator of For the Shrew by Anna Glazova (Zephyr Press) and The John Cage Experiences by Vincent Tholomé (Autumn Hill Books), as well as the author of the poetry chapbook Elephant (dancing girl press). She was the recipient of a 2023 NEA Translation Grant for her work on Anna Glazova's poetry.