Contents
Introduction: an invitation to readers
Part 1: Bronx Beginnings
Girlfriends
Escape to America
Imperfect Glass
The Pigeons of Heiden
Pilgrimage
After Church
Mamica
Peasant Roots
My Violin Loves to Play
Part 2: Activist
Emerging Voices
Can Factory Sonnets
Woman Machinist
Kosovo Diary: June/July 1999
South Africa: For Nelson Mandela
The Rest Is Poetry: Why We Come Out
The Real Poem
Part 3: Journeys and Interviews
in Russia
Revolutionary Romances
Siberians: Two Interviews
Amazon Sisters on the
Trans-Siberian Railroad
The Siberian Interviews Journal:
July 1995
Eighteen Years in the Gulag:
Kuzmich
In the Crimea
Flowers for Sveta
Meeting Shamans
Smitten with Lyuba
Sissies and Queers
Who Was Sophia Parnok?
Kaleidoscope
My Tsvetaeva
Interview with Me
Acknowledgments and Notes
Bibliography
