To Taste the River - Paperback

by Baiba Bičole (Author), Bitite Vinklers (Translator)

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 To Taste the River, 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.

Author Biography

Bitite Vinklers is a translator of Latvian folklore and contemporary literature. Her translations have been published in numerous anthologies and journals, including The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Two Lines. Recent translation collections include Imants Ziedonis' Each Day Catches Fire: Poems (Red Dragonfly Press, 2015); Knuts Skujenieks' Seed in Snow: Poems (BOA Editions, 2016); and Aleksandrs Čaks' Poems (Riga, Latvia: Jumava Press, 2018). She lives and works as an editor in New York.