Adam Sorkin is the author of thirteen books of literary translation. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, APR, Poetry, Seneca Review and elsewhere. He is Contributing Editor for Poetry New York, and Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University. He has received the Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize from the Rockefeller Foundation, a Fulbright and IREX grants. His translations have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. The poems that appear in this publication (SP Issue 4) are part of a book-length manuscript of Mariana Marin�s poems that is tentatively titled, Elegies from the Workshops of Cold. (2001)