Edge of House

by Dzvinia Orlowsky

A collection of poetry by Dzivinia Orlowsky.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Pushcart prize poet, translator, and a founding editor of Four Way Books, and an author of six poetry collections published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, including Bad Harvest, a 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Read” in Poetry. Her translation from the Ukrainian of Alexander Dovzhenko’s novella, The Enchanted Desna, was published by House Between Water Press in 2006, and in 2014, Dialogos published Jeff Friedman’s and her co-translation of Memorials: A Selection by Polish poet Mieczslaw Jastrun for which she and Friedman were awarded a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.

Reviews

[Danielle DeTiberus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Before Dawn I Leave," "Putting the Dog to Sleep," and "Burial" were some of my first introductions to Dzvinia's poetry. They are the kind of poems that still hold up, again and again.