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About Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson has published over twenty books including thirteen books of poems most recently Traversings Retrievals Out of Place Resonancia Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems and Heartwall. His translations include Alexsander Persoljas Potvanje Sonca / Journey of the Sun and Giovanni Pascolis Last Voyage (Red Hen Press 2010). With Susan Thomas and Deborah Brown he edited the selected poems of Slovene poets Iztok Osojnik and Toma alamun. He also edited nearly twenty chapbooks of poems from Eastern Europe.Metka Kraovec celebrated her 70th birthday in 2012 with the opening of a retrospective exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljanathe first such retrospective ever given to a female contemporary artist by the museum. This suggests the esteem in which she is heldnot only in Slovenian and European art but around the globe. Indeed her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the U.S. and two full-color books have been devoted to her work.