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Review: “Ambivalent Souls”
A review of Ambivalent Souls appeared in Slavic and Eastern European Journal.
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Poetry in conversation with translation.
Poets & Traitors Press is an independent publisher of books of original poetry and translations by a single author/translator. Poets & Traitors seeks to showcase authors who travel between writing and translation, artists for whom Language is made manifest through languages and whose own word carries, shapes, and is shaped by that of another.
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Review: “Ambivalent Souls”
Venya Gushchin reviews Robert E. Tanner’s Ambivalent Souls for The Brooklyn Rail.
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Review: “My Only Crime”
A review of My Only Crime from Swarthmore College’s Sibelan Forrester for The Russian Review.
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Writing and translation belong in the same room.
Poets & Traitors Press is an independent publisher of books of original poetry and translations by a single author/translator. Poets & Traitors seeks to showcase authors who travel between writing and translation, artists for whom Language is made manifest through languages and whose own word carries, shapes, and is shaped by that of another.
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