Lina Kostenko
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Lina Kostenko
Kyiv, Ukraine

Lina Vasylivna Kostenko (Ukrainian: Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930 is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movement, Kostenko has been described as one of Ukraine’s foremost poets and credited with reviving Ukrainian-language lyric poetry. Read more about Lina Kostenko here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Kostenko

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Wayne .Muse-in-the-Wells.-THIS-ONE.1
by Wayne Pernu

The new poetry collection from Wayne Pernu, one of the finest poets writing in English today. This is one of those rare collections that calls to mind the great masters—Donne, Keats, Yeats.

11. Iossel book
by Mikhail Iossel

Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience

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by Boris Khersonsky, Ludmila Khersonsky

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.

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by Sergei Shabalin

A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.

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