Books by Tsvetanka Elenkova

This mystical verse dives repeatedly into the given, and discovers there a world of symbol and - perhaps above all - movement. It is not Gerard Manley Hopkins's search for 'inscape', but instead an apprehension that from moment to moment forms itself into symbolic codes - and then releases those codes into the material, sensual world.

The most striking image of extreme eros and extreme pain is that of Christ on the Cross. This book of 77 poems by a Bulgarian author navigates between these two extremes. It provides the reader with many elements of Bulgarian culture and the Orthodox tradition.