A Hand Full of Water

Listen carefully… . She has something to say. -Joseph Brodsky

Tzveta Sofronieva’s poetry sparkles. Her memories go from Homer and Dostoyevski to Charlie Chaplin’s dance steps. Above all Sofronieva is a mythological poet. Each narration is a Cavafian voyage, never completed in order to wonder. The lucent version by Chantal Wright captures the verse and fluid images of Sofronieva’s poetry-Willis Barnstone, judge

Tzveta Sofronieva was born in Sofia in 1963 and lives in Berlin, Germany. She is the author of eight poetry books and a short story collection, and was the winner of the first Cliff Becker Prize for Translation. This bilingual English/German collection is Sofronieva’s first in the Untied States.

Chantal Wright is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.