Lidija Dimkovska, Author , trans. from the Macedonian by Ljubuca Arsovka and Peggy Reid. Ugly Duckling $12 (120p) ISBN 978-1-933254-14-2
Sad, silly and fantastical: in her first poetry collection translated into English (after three previous collections, plus a novel, in her native Macedonian) Dimkovska pins readers to the wall with rapid-fire linguistic energy and the propulsion of...
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Lidija Dimkovska, trans. from the Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-55659-375-8
Dimkovska doesn’t ask the easy questions: “To dig out what is live in my writing/ do I have to bury those living in the world?” This 10th collection (though only the second to appear in English) grapples with a world at once delightfully surreal and
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Lidija Dimkovska, trans. from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer. Two Lines Press (PGW, dist.), $14.95 (532p) ISBN 978-1-931883-55-9
In poet and writer Dimkovska’s (pH Neutral History) kaleidoscopic, bighearted novel, Zlata and Srebra, twins conjoined at the head, grow up in communist Skopje, Yugoslavia, in the mid-1980s, a period of great personal turmoil for the girls, set...
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