Trafika Europe 13 - Russian Ballet

Moscow born Nina Kossman is a painter, sculptor, bilingual writer, poet, and playwright. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in Moscow and New York. Her books include a collection of stories about her Moscow childhood, Behind the Border (HarperCollins,1994); Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (Oxford University Press, 2001); Pereboi , a collection of her Russian poems published in Moscow; a bilingual edition of her poems published in the US, and a novel. Her translations of Russian poetry have been anthologized in Twentieth Century Russian Poetry (Doubleday, 1993), The Gospels in Our Image (Harcourt Brace, 1995), The World Treasury of Poetry (Norton, 1998), Divine Inspiration (Oxford University Press, 1998), and elsewhere. Her translations of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems have been collected in two volumes, In the Inmost our of the Soul and Poem of the End . Her Russian short stories and poems have been published in a wide spectrum of Russian literary magazines. Two of her plays have been produced off-off Broadway. Her poems and stories have been published in many literary magazines, such as Tin House , The Threepenny Review , Michigan Quarterly Review , Columbia Journal , and Confrontation , and have been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Dutch, Greek, and Spanish. She believes that her paintings spring from a deep layer of the subconscious, and it is the connection, through her paintings, to the deepest subconscious, that helps her survive. She lives in New York. http://ninakossman.com

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