Tsvetanka Elenkova
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Shearsman Titles
The Seventh Gesture
About the author
Tsvetanka Elenkova was born in Sofia in 1968. The Seventh Gesture is
her latest poetry collection and appeared in 2005. She has published two other
poetry collections, The Stakes of the Legion and Amphipolis of
the Nine Roads, and a collection of essays, Time and Relation.
Her work has already been translated into twelve languages and, in English,
has appeared in the magazines Absinthe, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry
Review and others.