With My Shadow
Domin, Hilde / Kafatou, Sarah
There is an air of earnestness and sincerity about [Domin's] poems--they don't perform linguistic tricks . . . They are highly specific, idiosyncratic, and beautifully ordinary. Reading her, one is filled with a sense of natural wonder . . . Kafatou, who knew Domin, has sympathetically rendered a work as tender as it is beautiful . . . Kafatou's translations allow one to sense both Domin's self-possession and her insecurity."--Jewish Review of...