Alta Ifland
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Alta Ifland
San Francisco, USA

Alta Ifland was born and grew up in Communist Romania. She came to the US in 1991, has a PhD in French language and literature, and translates from/into Romanian, French and English. Her collection of prose poems, Voix de glace/Voice of ice, which she has translated from French, won the 2008 Louis Guillaume Prize (a French prize), and her novel, The Wife Who Wasn’t, a satirical comedy about Moldovans versus Californians in a post-Communist world, came out in 2021. Speaking to No. 4, her second novel, was published in 2022.

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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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