Poets & Traitors Press
Barking at God
Val Vinokur
Original poems | Translations of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Barking at God is Val Vinokur's second collection. It marks a return to the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky, most notably in the translation of About This, which had been almost 20 years in the making. Vinokur pairs ambitious translations with original poetry, written over the last seven years and spanning topics from a global pandemic to the art of translation itself. The book features cover art by Andrea Charlotte Mayaka Eberhardt, along with her re-imagination of Alexander Rodchenko's photo-collages for About This.
- Publication
- June 25, 2026
- ISBN
- 9780999073780
- Price
- $18
About Val Vinokur
Val Vinokur was born in Moscow and immigrated to Miami Beach as a child. He is the author of The Trace of Judaism: Dostoevsky, Babel, Mandelstam, Levinas (Northwestern 2009), and has published poetry, translations, and prose in The Boston Review, New American Writing, The Literary Review, McSweeney’s, and The Massachusetts Review. His co-translations with Rose Réjouis were recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship. His annotated translation of seventy-two stories by Isaac Babel, The Essential Fictions, was published in 2017. Vinokur is the founding editor of Poets & Traitors Press.
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