Mayapple
Press (Mamey Editions)
is proud
to publish translations
of contemporary poetry, especially bilingual editions
Please support contemporary literature by buying a small press book. |
Johanny
Vázquez
Paz (Puerto Rico/Chicago)
Poemas Callejeros/Streetwise Poems
Poetry - bilingual. Paper, perfect bound,
74 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-46-7
These sensuous and passionate poems explore one of the many strands of contemporary Latino immigrant experience, dancing the tropical sensibility of Puerto Rico among Chicago's concrete and broken glass. In Spanish and English, with translations by the author.
Rachel
Eshed (Israel)
Little Promises
Poetry. Bilingual edition (Hebrew/English)
transl. David Cooper
Paper, perfect bound, 104 pp
$16.00 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-42-4
In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel. Novelist Tsipi Keller says, "It is hard to speak of Rachel Eshed’s poetry without mentioning 'fire' – her poems virtually burn on the page, and David Cooper’s renditions not only do justice to the original but magnify its richness."
Johnny
Durán (Dominican Republic)
Nieblas
de Luna/Moon Fogs
Paper, saddle-stitched, 52 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-23-8
A bilingual
collection translated from the original Spanish by the author.
This is the first title in our new Mamey Editions project,
focused on bilingual publications and Caribbean literature.
Judith Kerman
comments:
"The poet's voice explores the distances of desire with a
quiet yearning equally moving in both languages, a romanticism in which
the strangeness and distance of the world illuminate and map the
strangeness and distance of the beloved."
All works and poems posted on this homepage and subsidiary pages are copyrighted to the authors. All rights reserved. Works may be downloaded or copied only for personal or classroom use. All other use requires prior written permission (email inquiries accepted).
Updated 4/18/07
