This Is Us Losing Count by Galina Rymbu and translated by Sarah Coolidge

This is poetry from Russia.

This Is Us Losing Count by Galina Rymbu translated by Sarah Coolidge is published by Two Lines Press. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781949641271E12.

This Is Us Losing Count, by Galina Rymbu, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Sarah Coolidge, published by Two Lines Press in 2022. It is a contemporary Russian collection where feminist pressure, political exhaustion, and bodily speech gather into a restless lyric. Rymbu’s work resists comfort; it wants the poem to remain awake inside crisis, counting what official language refuses to count. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Russia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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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