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dfparizeau's review against another edition
5.0
Having spent a fair number of years studying Soviet Ukrainian history and the literature that it produced, I can't help but be blown away by this book. Rosnau sews together the spirit of dissident writers from the Stalinist years, to the lives of migrants who toiled to make a living in a new country.
cweichel's review against another edition
4.0
These poems provide an overview of immigration from the Ukraine area. The ones from earlier times tell of the hardships women endured and how those experiences are manifest in later generations. These poems connected me to my ethnically German great grandmothers who also immigrated to the Canadian prairies from the Odessa region in the early 1900's. The poems of recent emigration from the area are heartbreaking stories of desperation and different variations of sexual slavery. I can't help but acknowledge that had those earlier women not made that journey, I could have been one of them.
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