Synopses & Reviews
"Nina Bogin's poems are impeccable in craft, elegant in their economy, and emotionally profound. . . . There is no better poet of her generation, and few as good."Denise Levertov
Nina Bogin's spare, subtle third collection maps personal territoryplaces of memory and love, of language and geography. She explores the traces history leaves and how her language connects with that of her ancestors.
Inside the words I use
are words I've forgotten,
buried dialects, whole alphabets
left on the far side of rivers.
Nina Bogin was born in New York City in 1952 and has lived in France since 1976.
Synopsis
Nina Bogin maps personal territory which is as much a place of memory and love as of language and geography.
Synopsis
The spare and subtle poems of Nina Bogins third collection map personal territory places of memory and love as much as of language and geography. An American writing in her adopted France, in the eastern border region close to Switzerland and Germany, she examines sometimes obliquely, sometimes directly the traces history leaves on the land and its inhabitants, while also exploring her own, sometimes uneasy, relationship to time and place in a mother tongue that has undergone French and German influences, connecting her historically to the Middle Europe of her ancestors.
About the Author
Nina Bogin was born in New York City in 1952, grew up on Long Island and has lived in France since 1976. She is married with two grown daughters and lives in eastern France near the Swiss and German borders. She is a translator of art history and literary criticism and teaches English in an engineering university. Her poems have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in the United States, Canada, England, France and Poland. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and has published two previous volumes of poetry, In the North and The Winter Orchards.