For years, Tavern Books, a small independent publisher out of Portland, has been quietly producing excellent, exquisite books. Their mission is to bring high quality projects that may have flown under the radar—by foreign and domestic authors—to American readers. Everything Tavern does is top shelf, especially their two-volume translation of The Fire’s Journey, a 1957 epic poem by the famed Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio.

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