Basil Lvoff
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Basil Lvoff
Basil Lvoff
New York, USA

Basil Lvoff is a writer, translator of poetry, and a literary theorist. He grew up in Moscow and moved to New York in his early twenties. He has taught Russian language, literature, and history at Columbia University, Hunter College, and New York University. His poems and essays appeared in Novy Mir, Zvezda, and Interpoezia among others, as well as in The New Review, which has recently published his stand-up tragedy devoted to the current war and the future of Russia: Vasily Lvov – That’s What They Call Me.

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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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by Nina Kossman

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

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