Barbie Chang by Victoria Chang Copper Canyon Press, 2017, $16 ISBN: 978-1-55659-516-5 Reviewed by Valorie K. Ruiz Barbie Chang, the newest publication from award-winning writer Victoria Chang, is an intelligent…
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Translations with an Introduction by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky Marianna Kiyanovska’s latest poetry collection Babyn Yar: In Voices (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2017) seems to take us to the…
1. You have ancestral roots in Lithuania. And perhaps elsewhere nearby. Can you tell us a little bit about this? Yes, of course. My father’s paternal grandparents were both Litvaks:…
Hallowed: New and Selected Poems By Patricia Fargnoli Tupelo Press, September 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1946482006 Reviewed by Z.G. Tomaszewski Reaching Toward What Shining We Are The poems in Patricia Fargnoli’s…
Marvels of the Invisible By Jenny Molberg Tupelo Press, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1936797929 Reviewed by Alyse Bensel All That’s Been and Will Be Lost Marvels of the Invisible, Jenny Molberg’s debut…
Unafraid of Magic: Two Norwegian Poets We inherit from antiquity the image of the poet as bard and storyteller—one who sings, or sang, the narratives of the tribe, preserving the…
No Longer a Resort Town: Four Poems by Yulia Fintiktikova Translations and Intro by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky Yulia Fintiktikova lives in Mariupol, Ukraine. Due to the town’s strategic status…
Serhiy Zhadan – translated by Valzhyna Mort from Stones We speak of the cities we lived in— that went into night like ships into the winter sea, we speak…
Ludmila Khersonsky – translated by Valzhyna Mort “How to describe…” How to describe a human other than he’s alone – what to add that he himself won’t guess to add?…
Boris Khersonsky, translated by Valzhyna Mort Bessarabia, Galicia, 1913-1939 Pronouncements 1 And rabbi Yitzchak Levi said: “People and trees share this – roots in the earth.” 2 And rabbi…