For the shrew

Glazova invites us to perceive the unfolding natural world with all our senses—a bee, a swamp, the icy north—and to consider our place in it. Her concise and sensory poems elucidate not just a moment in nature, but the flow of time. A snow-covered bud, a clod of earth, an animal’s fur, and human...

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Paper-thin skin

One of the first Kazakhstani women poets to gain international attention, Tazhi offers incisive and intimate observations in these seemingly spare poems that “pour out a little from an overflowing heart.”

Sasha sings the laundry on the line

Love laments and narratives about the hardscrabble lives of blue collar workers from Lake Erie to Eastern Europe and Russia.

The complete poems of anna akhmatova

The definitve collection of Anna Akhmatova in English translation.

This is us losing count

In This Is Us Losing Count, eight contemporary Russian poets obliterate old conventions in their efforts to reckon with the past. A woman surveys a changing city from her self-described “cloud tower,” recalling where building used to stand. A grandmother spends her hallucinatory final days conven...

To the ashes

A Russian poet now living in Germany reflects on exile, authoritarianism, the meaning of home (and homeland), and the perilousness of life in a “stony eternity.”