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Absinthe #11 is out! The issue includes poetry, essays, and fiction by Liliana Ursu, Roland Jaccard, Peters Bruveris, Aldona Gustas, Susanne Jorn, Ulf Peter Hallberg, Mariana Dan, Dimitris Leontzakos, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Serge Pey, Hella S. Haasse, Leo Pleysier, Boris Pintar, Jürgen Becker, and Dy Plambeck, with a portfolio by artists Roger Herman and Hubert Schmalix, communiqués from Copenhagen and Rome by Thomas E. Kennedy and Stefania Rega, and book reviews by John Taylor. Order a copy here.

Read some excerpts from Absinthe #11:

• An untitled poem by Serge Pey, translated by Yann Lovelock and Patrick Williamson
• "Poem Written on a Rainy Day about Garden Shears" by Liliana Ursu, translated by Mihaela Moscaliuc and Michael Waters
• "Snow in Istanbul," a poem by Susanne Jorn, translated by Susanna Nied
• An excerpt from Texas Rose, fiction by Dy Plambeck, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy

Absinthe #10 includes poetry, fiction, essays, photographs, and reviews by E.C. Belli, Andrzej Bursa, Djura, Tsvetanka Elenkova, Jörg Fauser, Almudena Grandes, Orhan Kemal, Thomas E. Kennedy, Birhan Keskin, Vyacheslav Kupriyanov, Krystyna Lenkowska, Murathan Mungan, Billy O’Callaghan, Daniele Pantano, Jacek Podsiadło, Daniel Tobin, and John Taylor and Anne Magnan-Park. Order a copy here.

Absinthe #9 features great work from Jens Blendstrup, Boris Schreiber, José Jiménez Lozano, Josip Novakovich, V. Pyetsukh, Nuno Júdice, Carlos Marzal, Wilhelm Genazino, Mathilde Walter Clark, Helle Helle, Amanda Aizpuriete, Henning Koch, Danila Davydov, Geneviève Huttin, Paola Masino, Carlo Betocchi, Stasė Lygutaitė Bucevičienė, an interview with Giulio Leoni, art by Alexander Egger, reviews by John Taylor, and cover art by Vladimir Zimakov.

Read a few excerpts from Absinthe #9:

• "The Now Deceased Member of the Mikkelsen Family," a story by Jens Blendstrup, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy
• "The Cat," a poem by José Jiménez Lozano, translated by Marilyn Rashid
• "In Memoriam, Ingmar Bergman 236," a story by Henning Koch
• "Come, Come to Me Now That I'm Old, Not Love," a poem by Carlo Betocchi, translated by Ned Condini

Check out the Absinthe blog at http://absinthenew.blogspot.com/.  We have several new writers contributing their thoughts about European art and literature, writing and translation.

Read more about Absinthe: New European Writing in the Metro Times, Poets & Writers, The Oakland Press, and the Ann Arbor Paper.

Absinthe: New European Writing is available at many independent bookstores throughout the U.S.

Jessica Bomarito, Coeditor

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