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Description - In the morning we are glass by Andra Schwarz

  • A young German poet from the Slavic ethnic Sorbian minority, a group that has retained its identity and to some degree, its languages, despite persecution, assimilation into Germany, and the devastating loss of their land; many of the poems address the erasure of culture, displacement from their communities, border issues, and environmental degradation;

  • Bilingual (German and English) poems on facing pages;

  • Poems have appeared in Action Books' "Poetry in Action #5" blog, Columbia Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, LitMagazine, Bomb-Cyclone, Michigan Quarterly Review;

  • At 38, Schwarz has already won several important prizes in Germany;

  • Translator Caroline Wilcox Reul won the 2018 Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation and Multilingual Texts;

  • LitMagazine will be publishing a "Global Voices Interview" with Schwarz and the Wilcox Reul in September 2020 issue;

  • Academics in German studies, Slavic studies, minority studies, border issues, creative writing, feminists, women's studies, and comparative literature scholars and students will find Schwarz' work of interest.

  • Recent Zephyr titles have won or been finalists for National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN Poetry in Translation Award, National Translation Award, Found in Translation Award.

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