Poets & Traitors Press
Means to Be Lucky
Annie Kantar
Original poems | Translations from Hebrew
Original poetry by Annie Kantar, accompanied by a selection of poems by Meir Wieseltier, Leah Goldberg, Amir Gilboa, Dan Pagis, and the Book of Job, translated from the Hebrew by Kantar.
- Publication
- June 1, 2023
- ISBN
- 978-0-9990737-6-6
- Price
- $15
Praise
“This fresh first collection shows Kantar to be an artful translator of deep-seated desire—to celebrate affinity even as she confronts what divides.”— Peter Cole, author of Draw Me After
“Wherever we look, Annie Kantar tells us in her remarkable first book, Means to Be Lucky, we encounter “the wonder of seeing.””— Michael Collier, author of The Missing Mountain
About Annie Kantar
Annie Kantar’s work has appeared in The American Literary Review, Barrow Street, Bennington Review, Birmingham Review, Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, Literary Imagination, On the Seawall, Plume Anthology 9, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Rattle, Smartish Pace, Tikkun, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Her translation from the Hebrew of With This Night, the final collection of poetry that Leah Goldberg published during her lifetime, appeared with University of Texas Press (2011), and was shortlisted for the ALTA Translation Prize. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Fulbright Scholarship, she published her literary translation of The Book of Job with Koren in 2021.
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