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Review "A very unique and significant publishing project." -- Dick Solis, translator"I...have been reading the issue nonstop for two days...so many voices we all need to know." -- Naomi Shihab Nye, poet and editor of "The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico With Paintings by Mexican Artists""[Fires] looked wonderful...full of interesting material." -- Jack Foley, poet, critic, host of "Cover to Cover" (KPFA Radio), and author of "O Powerful Star: Poetry and Art in California" Product Description In our sixth issue, translators explore the flames of desire and passion, of violence and renewal. From the history of tobacco in Cuba to 13th-century Persian ghazals of love; from violent conflicts in the Middle East and Chiapas, to fiery rituals of love and death; from witchburnings and invocations of Satan, to the fires signs of the zodiac and meditations on volcanic ashes. Authors include: Alphonse Allais, Charles Baudelaire, Yvan Goll, José Gorostiza, Henri Michaux, and Gellu Naum. About the Author Olivia E. Sears is the editor and publisher of Two Lines: a journal of translation and the founder of the Center for Art in Translation. A translator of Italian poetry, she has a BA in Humanities from Yale University and an MA and PhD in Italian literature from Stanford University. She is translator and editor of A Primer of Italian Fascism with Jeffrey Schnapp and Maria Stampino (European Horizons, May 2000).