Contributors: Author/Translator
Alissa Valles
Alissa Valles is a poet and translator from Russian and Polish. She has worked for the Institute of War Documentation in Amsterdam, where she grew up, and is now working toward a doctorate in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Alissa Valles's work
“I peel potatoes, stroke you on the head, pick up a leaf”
“I put off three dreams about father until later”
“I lose verbs most quickly, nouns are left”
“exactly the forehead, exactly the mouth, exactly the hands”
From: “After the Cry”
Look
Principality
Angels of Civilization
She was doing her hair
On Translating Poetry
Good Later
Blurb
Feverish Activity
Rue de Poitiers
Sweet, innocent
Return from Assisi
Tiresias’s Lesson
After Rain
The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest
Tiresias’s Farewell
A Stone from New World
He Who Always Knows
Buddha, Christ
Job’s Guilt
Who Doesn’t Exist
This Year
(from Meister Eckhardt or Zohar?)
Fragments from the year 1989
Save Me, Guide Me
