Tsvetanka Elenkova

Crookedness Tsvetanka Elenkova

Poetry. Translated from the Bulgarian by Jonathan Dunne. Tsvetanka Elenkova is an important figure in Bulgarian poetry. But her importance is much more than merely national. Her poems are still and controlled, yet are at the same time exercises in transcendence. They are both thought-experiments and insights. Elenkova is that rare thing in twenty-first century literature, a poet whose faith makes everything appear afresh. Tenderly, she offers the reader a world that is both familiar, and lightly transformed. Elenkova is surprising, necessary and unique.--Fiona Sampson