<p>&ldquo;As recounted in the memoir-essays and poignant late poems in <em>A Double Life</em>, the distinguished co-founding editor of <em>Field</em> and poet-translator, Stuart Friebert, has led the kind of globe-trotting &ldquo;double life&rdquo; that makes for the stuff of legend. There are fabled meetings with the likes of G&uuml;nter Grass in Berlin and Paul Celan in Paris (not to mention the stray run-in with secret police in Bucharest before the fall of Ceausescu!). But Friebert also includes a sparkling homage to his late colleague, the co-founder of <em>Umbra</em> (with Langston Hughes and Alice Walker), Calvin Hernton. The volume richly concludes with an expert&rsquo;s guide to teaching literary translation. Friebert sweeps us off to another time, a parallel universe where societies heed writers and their words, and in that, he has wrought something extraordinary. &lsquo;Do you know where this is going?&rsquo; as one poem playfully asks. I urge you to read it and see!&rdquo;<br />
&bull; Cynthia Hogue, author of <em>Revenance</em> and <em>In June the Labyrinth</em></p>