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To Taste the River - by Baiba Bi&#269 & ole (Paperback)

To Taste the River - by  Baiba Bi&#269 & ole (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Baiba Bičole belongs to the postwar generation of Latvian poets living in exile who reached artistic maturity outside their native country and broke with the older exile generation's traditional, nationalistic poetry. In <em>To Taste the River</em>, Bičole's poems are lyrical and personal, often with intense emotion and startling imagery. This is Bičole's first collection of poems in English translation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Baiba Bičole belongs to the postwar generation of Latvian poets living in exile who reached artistic maturity outside their native country and broke with the older exile generation's traditional, nationalistic poetry. In <em>To Taste the River</em>, Bičole's poems are lyrical and personal, often with intense emotion and startling imagery. This is Bičole's first collection of poems in English translation.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Bitite Vinklers</b> is a translator of Latvian folklore and contemporary literature. Her translations have been published in numerous anthologies and journals, including<i> The Paris Review</i>, <i>Kenyon Review</i>, <i>The Massachusetts Review</i>, and <i>Two Lines</i>. Recent translation collections include<i></i> Imants Ziedonis' <i>Each Day Catches Fire: Poems </i>(Red Dragonfly Press, 2015); Knuts Skujenieks' <i>Seed in Snow: Poem</i>s (BOA Editions, 2016); and <i></i>Aleksandrs Čaks'<i> </i><i>Poems</i> (Riga, Latvia: Jumava Press, 2018). She lives and works as an editor in New York.

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