Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers: Poems

Lidija Dimkovska

Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006 - Poetry - 109 pages

Poetry. Translation. The first English-language edition of the sensational young Macedonian poet Lidija Dimkovska. Translated into English by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid and published in a facing-page, bilingual edition as part of UDP's Eastern European Poets Series. "The rock of translation is broken into stones, lined up and moved around to form a solid multitextured dwelling that Lidija Dimkovska then smashes apart with the authority of pure existentialist 21st century hard-earned riotous despair. Long live the stone-throwers! They make poetry much greater than the sum of its parts"--Fanny Howe.

About the author

Lidija Dimkovska was born in 1971 in Skopje, Macedonia. She attained a doctoral degree in Romanian Literature in Bucharest. Her prizewinning debut Progenies of the East was published in 1992, and she has since written three more books of poetry (Fire of Letters, Bitten Nails, and Nobel vs. Nobel). In 2004 she published her novel, Hidden Camera. She lives and works in Ljubljana.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Do Not Awaken Them with Hammers: Poems; Issue 12 of Eastern European poets series
• Author: Lidija Dimkovska
• Translated by: Lidija Dimkovska, Ljubica Arsovska, Peggy Reid
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Mar 13, 2008
• ISBN: 1933254149, 9781933254142
• Length: 109 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / General