Ian Probstein
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Ian Probstein
New York, USA

Ian Probstein is a poet, scholar, and translator of poetry. He has authored, edited, and/or translated many books, including The River of Time: Time-Space, Language, and History in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Poetry (Boston, 2017); Complete annotated edition of T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays (St. Petersburg, 2019); Charles Bernstein. Sign Under Test: Selected Poems and Essays (Moscow, 2020); Contemporary American Poetry in Russian from Black Mountain Poets to Language Poetry, co-editor with Vl. Feshchenko;Centuries Encircle me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, a bilingual edition. Translation, introduction, and commentary by Ian Probstein (Boston, 2022); Dmitry Strotsev. War and Peace. Selected poems translated into English (New York, 2025), etc.

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by Nina Kossman

A collection of nonsense poetry for readers who love Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, and all things delightfully peculiar.

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by Nina Kossman

“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.” —Publishers Weekly

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by Nina Kossman

 

A new book of poems by Nina Kossman. “When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader…” -Ilya Kaminsky

Other Shepherds: Poems with Translations from Marina Tsvetaeva by Nina Kossman
by Nina Kossman

Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from Russian by Kossman. “The sea is a postcard,” writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and—iron-tough.”
—Ilya Kaminsky

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