Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is widely regarded as a leading example of the confessional poetry movement. Her work, known for its intense emotion and imagery, explored themes of death, rebirth, female identity, and mental illness. Plath’s poems, including “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus,” are celebrated for their technical brilliance and fierce honesty. (Wikipedia)
Sailor, artist, lawyer, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of Soviet spies operating in the West between the World Wars. He seduced women to learn great secrets of foreign states, but was then arrested and tortured in the Gulag, where he began to document the crimes against humanity of the regime he had served.
This book features biographies of the author’s family members, detailing with the effect of the war on their lives.
The first bilingual collection of Ukrainian verse by Borys Khersonsky. In these poems, heaven is often the setting: Jews who perished during pogroms and in the Holocaust continue with their daily routines, whereas on earth, displacement has become a constant, and collective memory has been cleansed of the Jewish past.
