Alissa Valles Alissa Valles is author of the poetry collection Orphan Fire and editor and co-translator of Zbigniew Herbert’s The Collected Prose 1948–1998. In from the ColdMiłosz and Brodsky’s productive exile. Alissa Valles Before HistoryHarry Clifton's Secular Eden. Alissa Valles The Testament of Mr. CogitoZbigniew Herbert and the limits of the political. Alissa Valles