What is Nina Kossman's God, and what kind of Unfinished Business are we about to get into, I wondered, opening this book of poems. "History Transformed into Myth," the subtitle at the front of these pages warned, and I wondered what is history if not already a myth. That's what I thought, getting started, yes--right [...]
“Monkey’s Defense” is a collection of short stories and parables by Nina Kossman, bilingual author of eight books of poetry and prose, compiler of the anthology “Gods and Mortals” (Oxford University Press), artist, and translator of Tsvetaeva’s poems into English. “Nina Kossman is a natural at all sub-genres of short prose: а diary entry, a [...]
An unkempt snake, waking up after a long hibernation, rises to the music of a fakir...
