Červená Barva Press

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  A Peaceful Color From the Silence

  by Gulnar Ali Balata $17.00
  Poetry from Červená Barva Press
  Translated from Kurdish

  “Gulnar Ali Balata’s fourth volume of poetry… is an intimate gift by a mature poet infused with love for her tattered homeland of Iraqi Kurdistan. Her pen ripples with sparkling rivers and her expectant heart wrings with sadness as she infuses her poems in shooting stars and sweet dew, as ‘tears braid Fate’s threads… shoulder / the coffin of [her] childhood.'” — Molly Lynn Watt
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  No More Happy Endings

  by Milan Djurasovic $12.00
  Fiction from Červená Barva Press
  Translated from Bosnian

  Milan Djurasovic is a Bosnian Serb from Mostar, the descendant of delightful peasants and modest working-class stock. He lives in northern California, where he works as a paraeducator. No More Happy Endings is his first collection of poems and short stories.
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  Secret Letter

  by Erika Burkart $15.00
  Poetry from Červená Barva Press
  Translated from German

  Swiss poet Erika Burkart (1922-2010) has been compared to the likes of Ingeborg Bachmann, Friedericke Mayröcker, and Rainer Maria Rilke. During the latter half of her lifetime, the Swiss literary establishment perceived her not only as the grande dame of German-Swiss poetry, but also as an elusive, metaphysical, at times eccentric enigma of contemporary German-language literature.
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  The Eyes of Keyholes

  by Milorad Pejić $7.00
  Poetry from Červená Barva Press
  Translated from Bosnian

  Milorad Pejić was born in Tuzla, Bosnia, in 1960. Since 1992 he has lived in Sweden. His books of poems include The Vase for the Lily Plant, The Eyes of Keyholes, and Hyperborea, for which he received the “Slovo Makovo-Mak Dizdar” prize in Bosnia in 2012.
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  Twenty-one Ghazals

  by Gulnar Ali Balata $18.00
  Poetry from Červená Barva Press
  Translated from Uzbek

  Alisher Navoiy, or Nizam-al-Din ‘Ali-Shir, a fifteenth century poet, mystic and artist, is reawakened in Daly’s sublime translations. True to their spirit yet infused with a modern idiom, these ghazals tremble on the tongue, sparkle on the sheaf.
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  Two Colors of the Soul: The Selected Poetry of Dmytro Pavlychko

  by Dmytro Pavlychko $17.00
  Poetry from Červená Barva Press
  Translated from Ukrainian

  In the tradition of poet-statesmen Neruda and Seferis, Pavlychko writes about his twin passions, love and history. Courageous, direct, and plain-spoken, he has long deserved a place on the international literary stage and Michael Naydan’s skillfully edited selections should confirm it.
  — Askold Melnyczuk