Yasha Hain was born into a Jewish family in Soviet Latvia and emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979. He started writing in 2016. Since then he has published five books of poems, short stories, and novels in Russian. His poems and novels were published in Hebrew and English translations. In 2019, he won the Franz Kafka award in the international literary conference “RosKon 2019”.
“13 short pieces…pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime.” .—Publishers Weekly
A new book of poems by Nina Kossman. “When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader…” —Ilya Kaminsky
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
A collection of nonsense poetry for readers who love Edward Lear, Dr. Seuss, Hilaire Belloc, and all things delightfully peculiar.