Multiverse: New and Selected Poems
New and Selected Poems
Multiverse brings together four decades of work by the multi-lingual poet of whom Joseph Brodsky said "Listen carefully, she has something to say". Sofronieva's poetry covers a wide range from short lyrics to sequences of long poems adopting a playful and experimental language which explores science and other topics.
Tzveta Sofronieva is the author of poems, stories, essays and lyric installations. She writes in German, Bulgarian and English. Her most recent books of poetry include Landscapes, Shore, Anthroposcene, Selected Affordable Studio Apartments, and her previous collection in English, A Hand Full of Water which was winner of the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation. Trained as a physicist and historian of science she brings these sensibilities and knowledge into her poetry. She was born in 1963 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and lives today, after stays in many countries, in Berlin, Germany. Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is an award-winning American poet and the author of two books of poetry and two chapbooks, most recently Interrogation Room, Currently an associate professor of creative writing and program director of Race and Ethnic Studies at St. Olaf College, she lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
