Paper-Thin Skin

Brings a young rising woman poet from Kazakhstan, who writes in Russian, to English readers for the first time;

Bilingual (Russian and English) poems on facing pages;

Russia is always in the news, but what of Kazakhstan? Here's a fresh, new, voice from a place few people know about, the ninth largest country in the world;

Recent Zephyr Russian and Eastern European titles have won or been short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award; the PEN USA Poetry in Translation Award, the Griffin International Poetry Prize; the National Translation Award; the Best Translated Book Award;

Poems have appeared in the literary journals and websites: The Atlanta Review, The Colorado Review, Chtenia, Cyphers, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, The St. Petersburg Review, Stand, Two Lines, and Words Without Borders. ,;

Translator is an award-winning poet and translator of Russian, French and Latin American literature.