The Minotaur’s Daughter

Eva Luka is a Slovak poet, writer, translator, illustrator, and Japanologist. She has published four collections of poetry and two works of children’s literature, and she has translated numerous works from English—including Bob Dylan and Edgar Allan Poe—and Japanese—Banana Yoshimoto and Kóbó Abe—into Slovak. James Sutherland-Smith is a translator of Slovak and Serbian poetry, including Ján Buzássy, Mária Ferencuhová, Ján Gavura, Ivana Milankov, and Miodrag Pavlovic. He has also published eight collections of his own poetry.

Translator’s Note

The Water Anomaly
Buddha
Caldarium
Tepidarium
Frigidarium
A Dog’s Being
Snail
In Red
Among the Rose Hips
Nakedness
Opium Poppy
Blue Gap
Brain Death
Mechanical Doll
Man and Woman
I-Beast
Deviltree
You and Me When the Cock Crows
The Cry of the Peacock
Killing a Bird
Portrait of the Late Mrs. Partridge
The Husband of the Late Mrs. Partridge
The Death of Mrs. Partridge
The Body of the Late Mrs. Partridge
The Late Mrs. Partridge’s Wake
Circe
Wildsister
Wildbrother
Virginia
Three Young Women Are Playing Dice
Necromancer
Centaur
And Then They Saw the Minotaur’s Daughter
Ravenangel
Ravenangel II
Ravenangel III
Under the Snow
Owl
Bats
Cat
Poem for the Eyes of a Dog
Birdbath
My Step-Sister’s Hen
Yoshiko
The Old Women
Journey
Ikitsuki Island
Porcelain
Bamboos
A Horse Came into Our Street
Fish Market
Tuesday
Aso
Crab Soup
Darkness
Landscape in White
The Ruin
Return to the Islands
Mercy