Eduardo Milán: Poems

Eduardo Milán: Poems 

translated from the Spanish by Leora Fridman 
33 pages, paper, staple bound
in English and Spanish on facing pages

Toad Press, 2012, $5

You can purchase a copy of Eduardo Milan: Poems here
& add this book to your Goodreads list, here
& read an excerpt from this book at Two Lines, The Center for the Art of Translation, here.

About: 

Eduardo Milán is a Uruguayan-born poet who left Uruguay in 1979 for Mexico due to political persecution. He has published over a dozen books of  poems, as well as essays and literary criticism. He is the recipient of the Premio de Poesía Aguascalientes.

Leora Fridman is a writer, translator and educator. An Assistant Director of the Juniper Institute and co-curator of the Jubilat/Jones Reading Series, she lives in Massachusetts.

The Flying Head

The Flying Head

poems by Ioan Flora

translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Elena Bortă

33 pages, paper, staple bound.

Toad Press, 2012, $5.00

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Read a couple poems in this book online, at eXchanges, here.

About:

Ioan Flora was the award-winning author of twenty books and anthologies, most recently Lecture on the Ostrich-Camel (1995), which won prizes from the Bucharest Writers’ Association and the Writers’ Union of the Republic of Moldova; The Swedish Rabbit (1997), honored with prizes from both the Romanian Writers’ Union and the rival Association of Professional Writers in Romania—aspro; Medea and Her War Machines (1999); and Luncheon Under the Grass (2005).

Flora was born in Yugoslavia in the Romanian-speaking region of the Serbian Banat between the Danube River and the border with Romania. He attended the Romanian school in Vârșeț, graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1973, and began publishing books of poetry with Waltzes (1970) and Ivy (1975). Other titles include Poetic Records (1977), The Physical World (1977), Work Therapy (1981), The State of Fact (1984), A Young Owl on its Deathbed (1988), Assassin Memory (1989), and Violet Soles (1990). In 1993, after having been an editor for sixteen years, he moved to Bucharest, where he worked for the Museum of Romanian Literature and the Romanian Writers’ Union.

Ioan Flora died unexpectedly at the age of fifty-four in February 2005, only a few days after the publication of his last book of poems.

Adam J. Sorkin is a translator of contemporary Romanian literature, and his work has won The Poetry Society Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. His recent books include three collections from the University of Plymouth Press, all translated with Lidia Vianu: Ion Mureșan’s The Book of Winter and Other Poems (2011); Ioan Es. Pop’s No Way Out of Hadesburg (2010); and Mircea Ivănescu’s lines poems poetry (2009), which was shortlisted for the 2011 Poetry Society Prize. Sorkin is main translator of Carmen Firan’s Rock and Dew (2010), in collaboration with the  author. In 2011, he published A Path to the Sea by Liliana Ursu, translated with Ursu and Tess Gallagher, Ioan Flora’s Medea and Her War Machines, translated with Alina Cârâc, and My Dog – the Soul/Câinele meu – sufletul by Floarea Țuțuianu, translated with Irma Giannetti. Sorkin is Distinguished Professor of English, Penn State Brandywine.

Elena Bortă is a free-lance literary researcher and translator who has contributed translations from English and Scandinavian languages to various literary and cultural  periodicals. The recipient of a travel grant from the Soros Foundation, she is working on a book-length manuscript on Mircea Eliade’s fiction, parts of which have been   published in Romania, the U.S., and the U.K.

• Also translated by Adam J. Sorkin: The Factory of the Past (Toad Press, 2008)

Suite Prelude A/H1N1

suite prelude a/h1n1

a poem by José Eugenio Sánchez

translated from the Spanish by Anna Rosen Guercio

23 pages, paper, staple bound.
Toad Press, 2011, $5.00

SOLD OUT

You can purchase a copy of Suite Prelude A/H1N1 here
& add the book to your Goodreads list, here.
It's recommended by Molossus, after all.
psst... Craig Dworkin read it!

• You can read an excerpt of Suite Prelude A/H1N1 here, published in Words Without Borders.

About:
José Eugenio Sánchez is the author of four collections of poetry and coauthor of several more, as well as being a well-known performer and the recipient of numerous awards. His book, galaxy limited café, was a finalist for the 2010 Jaime Gil de Biedma International Poetry Prize. Originally from Guadalajara, he lives and writes in Monterrey, a couple hours drive from Mexico's border with its neighbor to the north. Sánchez identifies himself as an "underclown," and his aggressively playful work eagerly engages both pop and high culture with irreverence and insight.

Anna Rosen Guercio is a translator and poet. She lives in Los Angeles and her literary work has appeared in or is forthcoming from journals such as The Kenyon Review, Pool, Eleven Eleven, Faultlines, Painted Bride Quarterly, eXchanges, and Words Without Borders, as well as several anthologies. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the University of Iowa, and is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine, writing a dissertation on translation studies, poetry, and world literature.

An Evening in Europe

An Evening in Europe
poems by Jörg Fauser
translated from the German by Mark Terrill


22 pages, paper, staple bound

Toad Press, 2011, $5

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About:

Jörg Fauser, born in 1944 near Frankfurt/Main, broke off his academic studies to work and travel, with longer stays in Istanbul and London, working as a casual laborer, airport baggage worker and night watchman. He supported himself as a journalist, wrote several novels, short stories and poetry collections, and was acquainted with Charles Bukowski. Fauser died in 1987 in an accident on the autobahn near Munich.

Mark Terrill’s writings and translations have appeared in over 500 literary journals and anthologies worldwide, a dozen chapbooks, several broadsides and three full-length collections, including Kid with Gray Eyes (Cedar Hill Books) and Bread & Fish (The Figures). A native Californian and ex-merchant seaman, he currently lives on the grounds of a former shipyard near Hamburg, Germany, with his wife and a large brood of cats.

• Read a short review of An Evening in Europe here. Thanks, Prague Post!

• Also translated by Mark Terrill, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Some Very Popular Songs (Toad Press 2009)

Finally! Arctic Poems

Arctic Poems

a selection from Arctic Poems by Vicente Huidobro

translated from the Spanish by Nathan Hoks

24 pages, paper, staple bound

Toad Press, 2010, $5

You can purchase a copy of Arctic Poems here
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About:

Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) was one of the first South American avant-garde poets. Born in 1893 in Santiago, Chile, Huidobro moved to Paris in 1916 where he met Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, and many other Cubist poets and artists. At this time Huidobro continued to develop his theory of poetry, "creationism," which advocates writing "a poem the way nature makes a tree." Arctic Poems dates from this period.

Nathan Hoks has published poems and translations in Lit, Verse, Crazyhorse, Circumference, and many other journals. His first book of poetry, Reveilles, will be published by Salt in fall 2010.

•  Molossus recognized Arctic Poems as a "Weekend Gem." Wonderful!

• In Galatea Resurrects #26, Monica Manolachi identifies Arctic Poems and the act of translation as "atemporal breach, an opening towards interpretation."

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Book List and Ordering Information

The Toad Press International Chapbook Series includes:


ARCTIC POEMS, by Vicente Huidobro, translated from the Spanish by Nathan Hoks (24 pages, paper, staple bound. Toad Press, 2010, $5.00)


SOME VERY POPULAR SONGS, poems by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, translated from the German by Mark Terrill (33 pages, paper, staple bound. Toad Press, 2009, $5.00)


THE BADEN-BADEN LESSON PLAY ON ACQUIESCENCE, by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German by Justin Vicari (27 pages, paper, staple bound. Cover photo by Brett Hendricks. Toad Press, 2009, $5.00)


THE FACTORY OF THE PAST, poems by Mariana Marin, translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Daniela Hurezanu (35 pp. paper. staple bound. Toad Press, 2008, $5.00). LIMITED AVAILIBILITY


MERCURY PROJECT, poems by Grzegorz Wroblewski, translated from the Polish by Adam Zdrodowski (18 pp. paper. staple-bound. Cover design based on a painting by the author. Toad Press, 2008 $5.00).


FERNANDO DE ROJAS ASLEEP ON HIS OWN HAND, poems by Rafael Ballesteros, translated from the Spanish by Steven J. Stewart (20pp. paper. staple-bound. Cover photo by Sean Bernard, Toad Press 2007, $5.00).


WOMAN BATHING LIGHT TO DARK, prose poems by Paul Eluard, translated from the French by Justin Vicari (21pp। paper. staple-bound. Cover photo courtesy of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Toad Press 2006, $5.00).


MARTIAL ARTIST, a book of Martial's epigrams translated from the Latin by George Held (31pp. paper. staple-bound, Toad Press 2005, $5.00)


OF THE SAME MIND, by Johann Hjalmarsson, translated from the Icelandic by C.M.Burawa (41 pp. paper. staple-bound. cover photograph by Jora Johannsdottir, Toad Press 2005, $5.00). SOLD OUT


TWENTY-FIVE AND ONE POEMS, by Tristan Tzara, translated from the French by Nick Moudry (39pp. paper. staple-bound. Cover design by Becky Rosen, Toad Press 2004, $5.00). SOLD OUT




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