Other Shepherds

Original poetry by Nina Kossman, accompanied by a selection of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated from the Russian by Kossman. Other Shepherds is the fifth book from Poets & Traitors Press, which publishes hybrid books of poetry by a single author-translator.

" "The sea is a postcard," writes Nina Kossman. There is both something elemental in this vision and--iron-tough. Kossman's poetics are very much in conversation with Tsvetaeva's dictum to "To live as I write: tersely." ... We need, Kossman tells us, to "learn to see / without eyes," perhaps because we must "get used to death / before it's here." This is a beautiful, honest book. "

--Ilya Kaminsky