In his second poetry collection, Infinite Altars, James Brasfield tracks the restless interplay of sun and shadow on a fallen feather outside an Italian chapel, the edge of the Gowanus Canal, and a fo
In James Brasfield's Ledger of Crossroads, layered by light and shadow, the crossroads emerge from distinct yet inseparable geographies. Grounded in the sensual world, the poems fuse American and East
Oleh Lysheha is considered the "poets' poet" of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has ste