Two suites of ten poems: "Old Testament Voices" and "The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam", plus "Letter to Etheridge": a moving memorial poem for Etheridge Knight.
Two suites of ten poems: "Old Testament Voices" and "The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam", plus "Letter to Etheridge": a moving memorial poem for Etheridge Knight.
J.Kates is a US poet, literary translator, and co-director of the non-profit literary publishing house Zephyr Press. He has published two chapbooks of his own poems: Mappemonde (Oyster River Press, 2001) and the award - winning Metes and Bounds (Accents Publishing, 2010), in addition to The Old Testament. A former president of the American Literary Translators Association, he has translated several books by Russian and French contemporary poets, and is the co-translator of three books of Latin American poetry.