Table of Contents
Introduction Polina Barskova 7
Poems Maria Galina 17
I was at the ends of the earth 19
from the poem "Everything about Liza" 21
Little Person 27
Autumn at the Grand Fountain 29
from Four Seasoned Years of Time 39
Maria Galina and Ainsley Morse Talk Translation 41
Poems Aleksandra Tsibulia 47
There's time for peace… 49
It's maybe the first warm evening 51
From the Ferris wheel… 53
Distances continually being replaced 55
For a couple of minutes 57
It's well known that squirrels… 59
The balconies with balusters… 61
Gone from the field… 63
Catherine Ciepiela & Aleksandra Tsibulia, in Conversation 65
Poems Oksana Vasyakina 69
Theory of Glare 71
Opera-Ballet Homophobia 83
Anna Halberstadt on Translating Oksana Vasyakina's Poetry 93
Poems Ivan Sokolov 95
Incisors , hold it , the median… 97
O R T 102
Elina Alter on Translating Ivan Sokolou 105
Poems Ekaterina Simonova 109
Next to her body… 111
They gave me the next… 115
Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov was an asshole. 119
Women who shave their legs… 123
from the cycle "Summer" 129
Girls 137
Kevin M. F. Piatt on Translating Ekaterina Simonova 151
Poems Nikita Sungatov 153
[a modern poem] 155
Children's Poem 175
After Vladislav Khodasevich 179
Valeriya Yermishova on Translating Nikita Sungatov 185
Afterword Polina Sadovskaya 189