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Lyn Coffin
This Green Life assimilates work from Lyn Coffin’s previous collections. This stunning collection also includes new work never before published.
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Punkin was an orangutan who slept under Henry’s bed. He was imaginary and Henry thought how wonderful it would be if Punkin was really real. But when Henry’s wish comes…
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In this extraordinary collection, Lyn Coffin writes with heart of longing and searching-for place, for connection, for love. Here, among these 17 stories, an artichoke reveals for a young bride…
Mohsen Emadi
In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting, imagery and a child’s love of language. Lyn Coffin’s translations…
In ‘Artwork on the Backs of Gargoyles, ’ Lyn Coffin, poet, novelist and translator, proves herself a master of the poetic forms, the villanelle, the sestina, and the paradelle, in…
Galaktion Tabidze,Dato Barbakadze
With its rich heroic and mythological folk poetry and 1500 years of lyrical poetry, Georgian culture depends as much on the verse as it does on music, wine and Christianity…
Archil Sulakauri
When Buttercup is kidnapped by the royals of MiniPutan, Piccolo sets out to rescue her. The events Piccolo experiences reveal human goodness, a quest for meaning and freedom, and the…
A tribute to Sam Hamill in verse, essays and an xclusive interview, edited by Paul E Nelson, Ian Boyden and Cate Gable. Poems in English, Spanish and French. Contributors include…
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
In her finely crafted translations Coffin has been uniquely successful in reproducing the directness and striking effects characteristic of Akhmatova’s poetry, and she is the first to remain true to…
