The Heart Is Not a Creator

By Yordan Efftimov and Jonathan Dunne

Yordan Eftimov's The Heart Is Not a Creator, translated by Jonathan Dunne, is a layered and formally restless collection that dissects emotional, political, and existential terrains with satirical precision and lyrical detachment. Moving between fragmented narrative, philosophical aphorism, and surreal image-making, the book creates a shifting poetic voice that questions belief, authorship, and the limitations of language. Bodies, borders, and histories emerge as unstable elements in a landscape where absurdity and intimacy coexist. Dunne's translation captures the tonal elasticity of the original, rendering a text that is at once cerebral, strange, and acutely alive to contradiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1917617240
• ISBN13: 9781917617246
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Broken Sleep Books
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"