THE THING
that no one else gave,
no one else took.
It grows.
It fits into my grandma’s palms
that break the bread.
Translated by Hristo Dimitrov / Edited by Tom Phillips
that no one else gave,
no one else took.
It grows.
It fits into my grandma’s palms
that break the bread.
Translated by Hristo Dimitrov / Edited by Tom Phillips
Dimana Yordanova was born in 1986 in Veliko Tarnovo. She graduated from a fine arts secondary school, then studied Balkan Studies. She has published three books of poetry: The men and women I have been (2017); Down the backbone (2018); and Letters to Nia, to whom I did not give birth (2020), all three of them printed by the Janet publishing house. In 2019 her first book for children came out: What a mess! (Janet 45)