Po Pravuyu Ruku Sna
all poems are © copyright 1985-2003 Nina Kossman HIS HAPPINESS The actual event was no longer of any interest. A destiny, exquisitely thought through, had folded into a life. So much for the fluctuating approximations [...]
Behind the Border
"Vivid picture of life behind the Iron Curtain." --Booklist "Young readers will identify readily with the impetuous Nina."--Kirkus "13 short pieces...pungently convey the effects of growing up under a totalitarian regime."--Publishers Weekly
Gods and Mortals
"Gods And Mortals is a fascinating collection of poems that brings together the classic and the contemporary, the 'old' and the 'new', in unexpected and startling ways. Nina Kossman has brought together a richly imaginative [...]
In the Inmost Hour of the Soul
[The poems in this volume] focus on the richest and most eventful years of Tsvetayeva's life. ... [Tsvetayeva] presents an enormous challenge to a translator, and Kossman demonstrates her respect for the poet by eschewing [...]
Poem of the End
REACTIONS : "...I love your direct, strong, audible translations. You convey the poems as poems....I hear her voice, more of it, and in a new pitch, which makes something clear in her poems that I [...]
