Poems from Children’s Island by Sasha Chernyĭ and translated by Kevin Kinsella

This is poetry from Russia.

Poems from Children’s Island by Sasha Chernyĭ translated by Kevin Kinsella is published by Lightful Press. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780982247143E12.

Poems from Children’s Island, by Sasha Chernyĭ, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Kevin Kinsella, published by Lightful Press in 2011. It is a Russian collection by Sasha Cherny that brings childhood, play, exile, and satirical tenderness into English. Children’s Island sounds like refuge, but also like the strange country adults can only visit through memory and voice. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Russia. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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