We squandered an entire human race
that touched itself
to beget those people
who touched each other
to beget us.
We never touched.
We squandered an entire human race.
Translated by Hristo Dimitrov / Edited by Tom Phillips
The Bulgarian text first appeared in “The men and women I have been” (Janet-45, 2017 )
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)
