For 16 years the Two Lines World Writing in Translation series has helped readers sample and discover a broad array of international authors whose voices would otherwise not be heard in the United States. Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed, the latest volume in the series, collects the poetry and fiction of 30 different authors, giving pause to the vulnerability of borders and transposed sense of place that contemporary writers the world over feel.
A special section on Palestinian poetry selected by Marilyn Hacker pays tribute to the late Mahmoud Darwish with Fady Joudah's award-winning translations. Other features include: a preview
from Breon Mitchell's benchmark retranslation of Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum; Khaled Mattawa's newest translations of revered Syrian poet Adonis; and an extract from Esther
Allen's latest work-Cuban writer Jose Manuel Prieto's novel Rex, set in the world of Russian expats and Mafiosos. Wherever I Lie Is Your Bed also includes poetry translated from Kurdish and
Basque as well as avant-garde fiction from Greek author Ersi Sotiropoulos and the late Danish poet Inger Christensen.
