Eléna Rivera
I was born in Mexico City and spent my childhood in Paris. I am is the author of The Perforated Map (Shearsman Books, 2011), Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL e-editions 2010), Mistakes, Accidents and the Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing Eye Books, 2005), Unknowne Land (Kelsey St. Press, 2000), Wale; or, the Corse (Leave Books, 1995), and a pamphlet entitled Disturbances in the Ocean of Air (Phylum Press, 2005). My chapbook On the Nature of Position and Tone is forthcoming from Fields Press.
I recently won the 2010 Robert Fagles prize in translation from the National Poetry Series for my translation of Bernard Noël's The Rest of the Voyage (Graywolf Press, 2011). I am a recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation, a poetry residency at the Fundacíon Valparaíso in southern Spain (2009), and the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. My translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secret of Breath was published by Burning Deck Press in 2009.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Perforated Map, Shearsman Books, U.K., 2011
Remembrance of Things Plastic, LRL e- editions, San Marcos, TX, 2010
Mistakes, Accidents, and A Want of Liberty, Barque Press, London, UK, 2006
Translation:
The Rest of the Voyage, by Bernard Noël, Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2011
Secrets of Breath, book-length poem by Isabelle Baladine Howald, Burning Deck Press, Providence, RI 2008
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