In Muse in the Wells, poet Wayne Pernu journeys through frozen landscapes, forgotten roads, restless spirits, and the thin boundary between life and death. Rooted in the North Country’s stark beauty, these poems weave myth, memory, solitude, faith, aging, loss, and the search for meaning. From snow-covered forests and abandoned towns to crows, storms, and moonlit roads, Pernu’s work blends old folklore with deeply human questions. Meditative yet haunting, his voice confronts mortality and unseen forces. For readers drawn to lyrical poetry and mythic landscapes, Muse in the Wells lingers like winter wind through pines—stark, resonant, and unforgettable.
Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience
Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.
A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.
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.