Sometimes I Wonder if Fred Was Happy Here

Author: Adelaide Ivánova

Translator: Chris Daniels

Publisher: Tripwire (2024)

Sometimes I Wonder if Fred Was Happy Here is a selection of 11 poems from Adelaide Ivánova’s chifre, which has been translated by Chris Daniels. Of chifre, Adelaide wrote: We are in the world in 2021, and a long-announced humanitarian crisis is wide open. In this scenario, in the midst of anguish and wreckage, how is it possible to think and make poetry? I do not have an answer to this question, but in chifre I tried to point toward ways to deal with the situation. […] chifre is a place of possibilities and, above all, an invitation to take a stand.