ninakossman https://ninakossman.com/ Нина Косман ( Kоссман ) Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:07:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Cockroach Soup and Other Poems for Kids (ages 4 to 7) https://ninakossman.com/cockroach-soup-and-other-poems-for-kids-ages-4-to-7/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 03:18:22 +0000 https://ninakossman.com/?p=4767   Step into a world where animals talk in rhymes, spiders ponder philosophy, and soup is never what it seems. In this curious collection of nonsense poetry, you'll meet a monkey obsessed with yellow pants, a centipede with too many bleeding feet, and a lion whose royal dreams are nibbled away by mice. And just [...]

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Step into a world where animals talk in rhymes, spiders ponder philosophy, and soup is never what it seems. In this curious collection of nonsense poetry, you’ll meet a monkey obsessed with yellow pants, a centipede with too many bleeding feet, and a lion whose royal dreams are nibbled away by mice. And just when you think it can’t get any stranger, someone’s serving glue soup and cockroach soup for lunch. Playful, clever, and just a little bit unsettling, these poems stir the imagination and tickle the darker corners of the mind. Perfect for readers who love Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, and all things delightfully peculiar. With original illustrations by Nadia.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798993482026
Publisher: Kubik
Publication date: 12/21/2025
Pages: 36
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.09(d)
Age Range: 3 – 7 Years

 

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]]> Gods of Unfinished Business https://ninakossman.com/gods-of-unfinished-business/ Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:17:33 +0000 https://ninakossman.com/?p=4675 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 [...]

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]]> 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 before I learned that Kossman sent me these poems from a warzone, literally: the poet’s e-mail said she was in the occupied Ukraine at that time. And just like that, the mythological history, whatever that is, became a documentary fact. Facts take an interesting role in this collection of poems, actually: we begin with an echo of an ancient Akkadian text also taking place in a warzone, though of a very different kind. And, indeed, the myth comes forth. Or, rather, the myth is denied us (“What Ismul’s soul learned in the city of souls is never revealed”) only to be revealed as the pages turn…”

“When the mythological and personal meet, something transforms for this reader; perhaps that very “semblance of meaning in a meaningless world” comes to the surface. What is that meaning, you might ask. Perhaps it is awareness of how one isn’t alone, after all, and has never been alone on this planet, despite what humanity’s so-called “progress” seems so intent to insist on.”

-Ilya Kaminsky

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]]> Нина Косман. Oправдание мартышки https://ninakossman.com/%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%81%d0%bc%d0%b0%d0%bd-o%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b4%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b5-%d0%bc%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%82%d1%8b%d1%88%d0%ba%d0%b8/ Sun, 03 Nov 2024 03:15:43 +0000 https://ninakossman.com/?p=4578 “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 [...]

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“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 mystical novella, an autobiographical note, a psychological sketch. She has good taste, a sober view of herself and others, and an innate gift for holding the reader’s attention.”
— Dmitry Bykov

«Нина Косман одинаково органична во всех жанрах малой прозы: дневниковая запись, мистическая новелла, письмо, автобиографическая заметка, психологический этюд. У неё хороший вкус, трезвый взгляд на себя и людей, врожденный дар держать читательское внимание.»
— Дмитрий Быков

«Oправдание мартышки» — сборник рассказов и притч Нины Косман, двуязычного автора книг стихов и прозы;художника, составителя антологии «Gods and Mortals» (Oxford University Press), переводчика стихов Цветаевой на английский. Картины выставлялись на выставках в Канаде и Америке. Первый сборник русских стихов Косман был опубликован в издательстве
«Художественная литература» в 1990 г. Pассказы и стихи на английском публиковались в американских, канадских и английских
журналах и были переведены на французский, испанский, голландский, персидский, греческий, итальянский, иврит, японский,
китайский, албанский и датский.

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