Merle Bachman is the author of The Opposite of Vanishing (EtherDome), Wrecker's Ball (Finishing Line), Diorama with Fleeing Figures (Shearsman), Blood Party (Shearsman), Recovering...view moreMerle Bachman is the author of The Opposite of Vanishing (EtherDome), Wrecker's Ball (Finishing Line), Diorama with Fleeing Figures (Shearsman), Blood Party (Shearsman), Recovering Yiddishland (Syracuse University), a book of literary criticism and translation, and the editor Nameless Country, an anthology of poetry by A. C. Jacobs (Carcanet). In 2015-16 she was a Translation Fellow of the Yiddish Book Center and is currently developing a manuscript of selected poems by Rosa Nevadovska, in translation.view less