The acrobat by Celia Dropkin and translated by Jennifer Kronovet Faith Jones, Samuel Solomon

This is poetry from Belarus.

The acrobat by Celia Dropkin translated by Jennifer Kronovet Faith Jones, Samuel Solomon is published by Tebot Bach. This is a Book originally written in Yiddish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939678065E12.

Celia Dropkin’s The acrobat, translated from Yiddish by Jennifer Kronovet, Faith Jones, and Samuel Solomon, gives English-language readers a charged entrance into one of Yiddish poetry’s fierce modern voices. The title is perfect for Dropkin. An acrobat suggests balance, danger, spectacle, erotic intelligence, and the body in midair. Yiddish poetry often carries memory and cultural loss in English-language reception, but Dropkin’s work should also be read for heat, wit, and bodily nerve. This is not a museum piece. It is a voice still moving. Published by Tebot Bach, the book belongs in the library because it keeps Yiddish literature alive as sensation and risk, not only as historical inheritance.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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