Pray to the Empty Wells
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Pray to the Empty Wells is a bilingual collection of poems by award-winning contemporary Ukrainian author Iryna Shuvalova. The forty-four poems reflect the central section of Shuvalova's forthcoming book of Ukrainian-language poems of the same title. Shuvalova's writing is rich, corporeal, and metamorphic, as well as being deeply rooted in Ukraine's folk culture, re-mixing its traditional spirituality with pulsating eroticism and acute awareness of the natural environment.
Iryna Shuvalova
Iryna Shuvalova is the author of three previous poetry collections, Ran (2011), Os (2014) and Az (2014). She has also edited the first anthology of queer writing in Ukraine.
Olena Jennings
Translated by
Olena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of
Secrets (Lost Horse Press) and the chapbook Memory Project. She is the translator or co-translator of
collections by Ukrainian poets Iryna Shuvalova, Kateryna Kalytko, Vasyl Makhno,
Yuliya Musakovska, and Anna Malihon. She lives in Queens, New York where she
founded and co-curates the Poets of Queens reading series and press.
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