© Kolibris Edizioni, 2010
Tolstoy in Love, the first full-length collection of poems by Ray Givans, was shortlisted for the Eithne Strong Award. The first section of the book consists largely of monologues and begins in the voice of Anna Akhmatova, celebrating her son's release from Stalin's prisons. Notions of voice, and influence, are further explored in poems that are both inner portraits of, and meditations on, a gallery of writers, including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Emily Dickinson, John Berryman and Simone Weil.
Dedalus Press 2009
Translated into: Italian
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