Olga Stein’s poetry asserts that love and desire are fundamental, universal experiences that transcend time and cultural boundaries, serving as powerful forces for personal and collective resilience. To this poet, human creativity and artistic expression are vital for coping with life’s complexities and enduring beyond oppression and tyranny. The collection critiques the misuse of power and celebrates the beauty and transformative power of art, suggesting that both truth and artistic integrity are essential for resisting injustice. By intertwining historical and contemporary contexts, the poems emphasize the continuity and interconnectedness of human experiences, advocating for a nuanced understanding of the human condition.
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.
