Crotinger, Susan, Lisa Hewit, Christine Lamb, Jean Rashkind, Hiroko Suzuki, Judith Woodard, trans.

A scarce student-published journal from the mid-1970s, containing translations from various languages of sixteen 20th century women poets, including Gisele Prassinos, Ilse Aichinger, Tomioka Taeko, and Belkis Cuza Malé. Each is represented by between one and nine poems, the translations of which are impressively deft and mature. The selection is even more compelling given that most of the poets, despite significant bodies of work in their native languages, have never appeared in English translation. Among those who have, the translations in Matrix pre-date most other English-language versions. Attractively ilustrated with the work of eight artists.With no bibliographic information in the publication itself, and zero representation in either OCLC or the trade, this compelling artifact remained a mystery for many months after first coming across our desk. After multiple dead ends, and on the verge of giving up, we finally succeeded in tracking down one of the translators via, of all plac