Hit Parade
Subtitle: The Orbita Group
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2016
Language: eng; rus
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781937027568
Description: "... a bilingual Russian-English collection of poems by the four leading authors of the Orbita creative collective, based in Riga, Latvia. Though their work is primarily written in Russian, the Orbita poets draw on European, Latvian and Russian traditions and contemporary scenes. Founded in 1999, Orbita has published a series of almanacs of literature and visual art and a number of bilingual Russian-Latvian books of poetry, essays, art and photography. This collection includes translations by Polina Barskova, Charles Bernstein, Bob Perelman, Julia Bloch, Daniil Cherkassky, Sarah Dowling, Natalia Fedorova, Eugene Ostashevsky, Karina Sotnik, Sasha Spektor, Anton Tenser, Maya Vinokour, Michael Wachtel, Matvei Yankelevich, and Platt" --