Distant Lands: An Anthology of Poets Who Don't Exist
AUTHOR
Agnieszka Kuciak
TRANSLATOR
Karen Kovacik
This faux anthology of twenty-one invented poets belongs in the company of world literature's distinguished fabulistsFernando Pessoa and Italo Calvinoin blurring the boundary between the textual and actual worlds.
Reviews
"Mystical, mischievous, and musical, Kuciak enchants me with the scope of her imagination, her whimsical flirtations with identity, theology, and the very nature of human existence. I am delighted by her lyrical flare, her wit, and her remarkable ability to be both one and many poets, or one poet with twenty one voices."
—Nin Andrews
Karen Kovacik is a poet and translator of Polish poetry. She is the former poet laureate of the American state of Indiana from 2011 until 2013. George Kalamaras succeeded her. During her time as poet laureate she put on a series of readings bringing poets from Indiana and other states called The Borderlands Project.
Agnieszka Kuciak lives in Poznan, Poland, and is the author of two collections of poetry.