KRISTIN DYKSTRA: TRANSLATIONS (BOOKS)

The Winter Garden Photograph / La foto del invernadero.
The book with which Reina María Rodríguez won her second Casa de las Américas prize for poetry (1998). Bilingual edition with essay and two interviews. Los Angeles: Green Integer Press.

 

Forthcoming

Did You Hear About the Fighting Cat?

¿Oiste hablar del gato de pelea?, by Omar Pérez, was originally published in 1998. This edition with the English translation will be published by Shearsman Books Ltd (Exeter, UK) in late 2010.

Author page for Omar Pérez at Shearsman

 

Something of the Sacred / Algo de lo sagrado.
Translation of the book by poet Omar Pérez López (La Habana: Unión, 1995). Bilingual edition with critical essay. Includes 5 poems translated by Roberto Tejada. NY: Factory School, 2007.

Cover art: Lili Maya

Something of the Sacred / Algo de lo sagrado is sold by Small Press Distribution and other sources

 

Time's Arrest / La detención del tiempo.
Second edition, revised, of this book by Reina María Rodríguez. Ed. and tr. Kristin Dykstra. With a new essay by Roberto Tejada, photographs by Jorge Miralles, and expanded translator's essay. Indiana, PA, and Ottawa: Factory School, 2005.

Cover art: Brian Collier

Time's Arrest / La detención del tiempo is sold by Small Press Distribution and other sources

 

Violet Island and Other Poems.
Anthology in English and Spanish from Green Integer Press (Los Angeles, 2004). Poetry by Reina Maria Rodriguez. Co-translated with Nancy Gates Madsen; critical afterword by Kristin Dykstra.

Cover photo: Enzo Aneiros

Violet Island and Other Poems is sold by Small Press Distribution and other sources