"Most of the lyrics in this volume are true to themselves as English poems and a nearly astonishing percentage are absolutely faithful, as well, to the Russian originals. . . .The Berlin Wall is as nothing compared to the linguistic boundaries separating East and West. The translations in this volume testify to a long-lasting love affair with these boundaries which has borne rich fruit." --Joseph Brodsky

This Green Life assimilates work from Lyn Coffin's previous collections. This stunning collection also includes new work never before published. This volume includes poetry from Human Trappings, The Poetry of Wickedness, Crystals of the Unforeseen, East and West, Joseph Brodsky Was Joseph Brodsky, A Marriage Without Consummation, and New Poetry. It also includes the never before published -Rodin's Girl Friend.-

In his poems of memory and displacement, Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi charts his experience of exile with vivid, often haunting, imagery and a child's love of language. Lyn Coffin's translations from the Persian allow Emadi's poems to inhabit the English language as their own, as the poet recasts his earliest memories and deepest loves over the forges of being "someone who goes to bed in one city and wakes up in another city." Alternating between acceptance and despair, tenderness and toughness, he writes, "I wanted to be a physicist," but "Your kisses made me a poet." Mohsen Emadi is a powerful...

Fanciful color illustrations of whimsical animal beings speaking in Georgian verse? Marvelously rendered in English, complete with rhyme? Too much, you say? Not enough? From the drawing board of Zaza Abzianidze in (the former Soviet Republic of) Georgia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian - now to your hands.

In this extraordinary collection, Lyn Coffin writes with heart of longing and searching-for place, for connection, for love. Here, among these 17 stories, an artichoke reveals for a young bride the fault lines already dooming her new marriage; a mother makes final amends for telling an unwelcome truth about Christmas by telling a comforting lie about death; a young girl navigates the madness of her mother, the possible evil of her father and questions about her own state of mind; and we are treated to an inspired retelling of the classic Tortoise and the Hare fable. Coffin's fictions cross...

When Buttercup is kidnapped by the royals of MiniPutan, Piccolo sets out to rescue her. The events surrounding Piccolo reveal human goodness, a quest for meaning and freedom, and the powerful bond of friendship. Young readers will adore the imaginative characters and their bold escapades. This endearing spoof of human folly shows us that the forces of Fate are on the side of good will.