Rain of the Future
/ poems by Valerie Mejer (with A.S. Zelman-Doring)
/ With translations by Alexandra Zelman, Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright
/ Edited by C.D. Wright
Valerie Mejer is a poet, essayist, translator and painter. As an artist she has been part of diverse poetic collaborations among which are two books by Antonio Prete: Menhir and L’imperfection de la Lune, Los Boteros de la Noche by Raúl Zurita and Ligatures by Forrest Gander. Her poetry books include Geografías de Niebla, Esta Novela Azul, Ante el Ojo del Cíclope, and two recent titles, de la ola, el atajo and Cuaderno de Edimburgo published in Spain by Amargord Editions. Action Books will bring out a second collection of her poems in English translation, This Blue Novel, in 2015. Mejer was a featured writer for Poetry Foundation's Harriet in 2013. Her poems in English have appeared in Poetry London, American Poetry Review, Fascicleand Nimrod. She is the recipient of two FONCA grants, the Spanish Government’s International Award “Gerardo Diego 1966,” and a grant from Sistema Estatal de Creadores to translate the Australian poet Les Murray.
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Reviews
In Heavy Feather Review by Jordan Sanderson
In Publishers Weekly
In Entropy by Dennis James Sweeney
In Fanzine by Laura Carter
At Goodreads
Poems & Interviews in English by Valerie Mejer
Poetry Foundation
Center for the Art of Translation
Harriet
Terrific YouTube video from Action Books
