{"product_id":"paper-bridge-paperback","title":"Paper Bridge - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVasyl Makhno\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eOlena Jennings\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eIlya Kaminsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaper Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno, a \"master of the contemporary Ukrainian Ballad, who builds a lifeline for the broken-hearted wanderers, homeless heartbreakers, hopeless romantics, and helpful ironists,\" in the words of Valzhyna Mort, winner of the Griffin Poetry prize. Makhno's bridge extends to us all, serving whatever purpose we need it to, as Lidijia Dimkovska, author of \u003cem\u003eA Spare Life\u003c\/em\u003e, writes, \"it is a bridge that can burn or resist... but it is a witness to the existence of a traveler through souls, bodies, and spirits, through our own subconsciousness.\" With this outstanding collection of poems, Makhno is able to preserve an \"enviable spiritual equilibrium...one that grinds out the music even in the toughest of days, a music that survived the twentieth century and keeps alive in the new horrors of the twenty-first,\" in the words of Los Angeles Book Prize winner Ilya Kaminsky, \"and now despite it all, even in his room in New York City away from Ukraine, [Makhno] can still hear how 'old age sings' how it 'nervously forces the music into a rhythm,\" and how 'it might falter, but it plays again.'\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVasyl Makhno\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently, \u003cem\u003eOne Sail House\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). He has also published a book of short stories, \u003cem\u003eThe House in Baiting Hollow\u003c\/em\u003e (2015); a novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Eternal Calendar\u003c\/em\u003e (2019); and four books of essays: \u003cem\u003eThe Gertrude Stein Memorial Cultural and Recreation Park\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), \u003cem\u003eHorn of Plenty \u003c\/em\u003e(2011), \u003cem\u003eSuburbs and Borderland\u003c\/em\u003e (2019), and \u003cem\u003eBiking along the Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e (2020). Makhno's works have been widely translated into many languages; his books have been published in Germany, Israel, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the US. Two other poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eThread and Other New York Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2009) and \u003cem\u003eWinter Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (2011), have been published in English translation. He is the recipient of the Kovaliv Fund Prize (2008); Serbia's International Povele Morave Prize in Poetry (2013); the BBC Book of the Year Award (2015); and the Ukrainian-Jewish Literary \"Encounter\" Prize (2020). Makhno currently lives with his family in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67858268586136,"sku":"9781951508265","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0759\/8830\/4024\/files\/W90mlQgBRc9781951508265.webp?v=1793512292","url":"https:\/\/thepinkflamingobookstore.com\/products\/paper-bridge-paperback","provider":"The Pink Flamingo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}