Olena Boryshpolets' poems cover a vast landscape, from the Ukrainian steppe and the Black Sea, now filled with Russian mines, across the Baltic Sea and across the ocean to the United States. Her journey since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has taken her from her home in Odesa to a temporary stay in Pittsburgh, where she writes poems that weave in the past and tell us about a terrible war in the middle of Europe, the fate of Ukrainians,...
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