Minotaur’s Daughter

Eva Luka is a Slovak poet, writer, translator, illustrator, and Japanologist. She has published four collections of poetry and two works of children’s literature, and she has translated numerous works from English—including Bob Dylan and Edgar Allan Poe—and Japanese—Banana Yoshimoto and Kóbó Abe—into Slovak. James Sutherland-Smith is a translator of Slovak and Serbian poetry, including Ján Buzássy, Mária Ferencuhová, Ján Gavura, Ivana Milankov, and Miodrag Pavlovic. He has also published eight collections of his own poetry.

"I love these witchy poems about liminal spaces and hybrid creatures, man-beasts and fish-birds and dead-alive beings. . . . Here is a book alive with the darkness of Old World fairy tales.”

• Translator’s NoteThe Water AnomalyBuddhaCaldariumTepidariumFrigidariumA Dog’s BeingSnailIn RedAmong the Rose HipsNakednessOpium PoppyBlue GapBrain DeathMechanical DollMan and WomanI-BeastDeviltreeYou and Me When the Cock CrowsThe Cry of the PeacockKilling a BirdPortrait of the Late Mrs. PartridgeThe Husband of the Late Mrs. PartridgeThe Death of Mrs. PartridgeThe Body of the Late Mrs. PartridgeThe Late Mrs. Partridge’s WakeCirceWildsisterWildbrotherVirginiaThree Young Women Are Playing DiceNecromancerCentaurAnd Then They Saw the Minotaur’s DaughterRavenangelRavenangel IIRavenangel IIIUnder the SnowOwlBatsCatPoem for the Eyes of a DogBirdbathMy Step-Sister’s HenYoshikoThe Old WomenJourneyIkitsuki IslandPorcelainBamboosA Horse Came into Our StreetFish MarketTuesdayAsoCrab SoupDarknessLandscape in WhiteThe RuinReturn to the IslandsMercy