Starry Convict Prison. The New Guernica
This volume of poetry offers a new perspective on a painfully familiar reality. This is poetry that is fragmentary and embossed, faithful to tradition and innovative in spirit, introspective and impetuous, rhyming the heart with the mind. Opposing the myth of the cursed poet, Kiril Kadiiski does not hesitate to deal with the malice of the day, to engage with the inevitable and "to take a side", because it is always the reader's side. Eclectic, free in sound, far from any dogmatism, the poet has only one ambition - to involve the reader in his most intimate experiences in a clear, warm and accessible language. In a world, crushed and broken from within, Kiril Kadiiski stands face to face with evil fate. He gives expression to chaos and disperses it, skillfully articulates both pain and light, draws a charge from the sources of poetry to nullify smoldering wars through his lyrics. The poet Kadiiski has nothing to lose and embraces avant-garde in his own inimitable way, cutting with his poetic scissors the barbed wire that surrounds the fortress of the canon.
In addition to the collection "Starry Convict Prison", the book you hold in your hands also contains a second edition of the collection "The New Guernica", which already has a French translation by Silvia Wagenstein. French criticism ranked "The New Guernica" among the highlights of literary life at the end of 2024.
Kiril Kadiiski
Kiril Kadiiski (1947) is a Bulgarian poet, essayist, translator, and an author of many books, including “Concerts in Heaven” (1979), “Rider Of Marble Horses” (1983), “Time of Sand” (1987), “Poems” (1995), “The Death of the White Swallow” (2001), “Green” (2002). He has translated from French the authors: Mallarme, Villon, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and from Russian: Tyutchev, Bunin, Block, Voloshin, Pasternak. Kadiiski is also the author of the only book with palindromes in the Bulgarian literature and of the poetry anthology “From Villon to Vian”.
The books authored by Kiril Kadiiski have been issued in France (nine books of poetry), Spain, Greece, Serbia, and Romania. His poems have been translated into English, German, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Turkish and Macedonian.
Kiril Kadiiski has won many prestigious awards, among which - “Ivan Franko”, Ukraine; “European Grand Prize for Poetry”, Romania; “Max Jacob”, France.
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Anthology of French Poetry in Three Volumes (IX - XXI) Volume 1
Anthology of French Poetry in Three Volumes (IX - XXI) Volume 2
