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Nikola Madzirov <\/strong>(born in 1973 in Strumica) is a Macedonian poet, editor, and translator born to a family of Balkan War refugees. Madzirov\u2019s poetry examines both personal and cultural geography in order to trace the nature of our movement across those landscapes. In a review of \u201cRemnants of Another Age\u201d in the \u201cTottenville Review\u201d, Mike Walker notes, \u201c[O]ften in Madzirov\u2019s poetry, there is a sense of escape but also a sense of the imperative for such escape. The characters who people his poems are half the time in transit, in flight, and half the time already gone. There is a sense of autumnal winsomeness yet also a feeling of suspense in his work.\u201d In a 2011 interview with L.A. Grove for the \u201cCalifornia Journal of Poetics\u201d, Madzirov addressed the nature of translation, stating, \u201cThere are many poems in which we can recognize ourselves without having written them, just as there are cities where we have imagined ourselves much earlier before we travel there. The translator is a silent deconstructor, a night guard of the bridges of difference and understanding\u201d. He is the author of several collections of poetry including \u201cStudentski Zbor\u201d award-winner \u201cLocked in the City\u201d (1999), \u201cAco Karamanov\u201d Award-winner \u201cSomewhere Nowhere\u201d (1999), and \u201cHuberta Burda\u201d European Poetry Award-winner \u201cRelocated Stone\u201d (2007). Poet Carolyn Forche wrote the foreword to a volume of his selected poems, \u201cRemnants of Another Age\u201d (2011, translated by Peggy Reid, Graham Reid, Magdalena Horvat, and Adam Reed). Madzirov\u2019s work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His additional honors include the \u201cMiladinov Brothers\u201d poetry prize and residencies at the University of Iowa\u2019s International Writing Program, LiteraturRaum in Berlin, KulturKontakt in Vienna, Literatur Haus NO in Krems, and Villa Waldberta in Munich. He has served as Macedonian coordinator for the international poetry network for Lyrikline and as poetry editor for the Macedonian online journal \u201cBlesok\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese poems move mysteriously by means of a profound inner concentration, giving expression to the deepest laws of the mind. Their linguistic \u2018making\u2019 is informed by vivid evidence of a serious self-making, soul-making, and heart-making.\u201d \u2013 Li-Young Lee His poetry is translated in more than 40 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The essays are filled with poetic reflections on the nature of time, space, and human experience. Madzirov does not hesitate to tackle big themes. He explores the relationship between past and present, the personal and the collective, the individual and society. Themes such as travel, migration, displacement, and the search for \u201chome\u201d give a distinct tone to the essays, in which the intimate experience of dislocation takes on a metaphysical quality. Outstanding title:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
RELOCATED STONE (2007)<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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HOUSE IN SILENCE (2024)<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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