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Algometry is a lyrical portrait of the generation of Ukrainians who grew up and were shaped by the common and individual painful inner and outer experiences, to become the most resilient and brave nation. Algometry is a term of physiology and neurology, but it is not the physical pain that is the recurring motif of the book: the speaker, a millennial woman who grew up in Western Ukraine in the 90s, takes us through the three thematic corridors emphasizing emotional sensitivity, hyper-empathy, and inner strength. The poems, organized in three corridors Algometry--Anthropology--Amnesia take the reader through an individual past, common future, and a lyrical forever. The poetry is complemented with an author's essay on love, pain, words, and what unites all living beings--a key to understanding of this book. Algometry--is a philosophical and lyrical reflexion on pain, suffering an empathy as a measurement of our humanness.
Iryna Vikyrchak is a Ukrainian poet, writer, translator, and culture manager. Before Algometry, she published a poetry collection titled, Conversation with an Angel (2004) and a bilingual poetry album, Time Train: Chernivtsi-Prague-Vienna (2011). A native of Western Ukraine, Vikyrchak has lived in Chernivtsi, Kyiv, and Lviv, and moved around Europe for her writing and career in culture management. In Wroclaw, she worked closely with the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk, before moving to France and India.
Murray, Nina: -Nina Murray is a Ukrainian-American poet and translator. She is the author of the poetry collections Glapthorn Circular (LiveCanon Poetry, 2023) and Alcestis in the Underworld (Circling Rivers Press, 2019) as well as several chapbooks.
Mahoney, Grace: -GRACE MAHONEY is a translator, scholar, and the series editor of the Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series. She has translated A Field of Foundlings by Iryna Starovoyt (Lost Horse Press 2017) and works by Liudmyla Khersonska, Svitlana Povaliaieva, Elena Shvarts, and Yuri Izdryk, which have appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Her translation of Victoria Amelina's novel Dom's Dream Kingdom received a Translation-in-Progress Grant from the Peterson Literary Fund (2023) and has excerpts published in Absinthe and Brick. She holds her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan.
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