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all poems are © copyright 1985-2003 Nina Kossman SHAPE OF A WHISPER The shape of a whisper? What else do these bones promise? Lying in wait of some body's love, stretching thin arms, twitching thin [...]
"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 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 [...]
[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 [...]
all poems are © copyright 1985-2003 Nina Kossman Видишь, как солнце прячет ловко золотыми руками память о смуглых предках в длинные языческие вазы; тонкие руки солнца, проворные желтые пальцы чтобы мы ничего не знали [...]
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 [...]