That’s real poet’s prose — “the quiet craziness of the old ladies’ glasses, crisscrossed by telegraph cables and a few birds” — and I...

Giornata  is a successful, cohesive three-dimensional product formed at the intersection of three subsets along the x-axis— the minds and...

Beyond the intellectual, emotional, and even psychotherapeutic ways of processing grief, Mashinki offers us a physiological one. <..> In...

The Naked World is an extraordinary reflection on the impact of history and culture(s) on individuals in a family across generations,...

This gorgeous ambitious text<..> settles us—and unsettles us—behind the eyes of a poet, a poet whose eyes are pierced by brilliant images...

Irina Mashinski’s The Naked World <..> is an impressive achievement in the hybrid genre. <It> illuminates not only the author’s past...

Part poetry, part flash fiction; part memoir, part imagination; part history, part fantasy. The Naked World is like a dream, images, and...

Mashinski's memoir is magical.

Luminous prose and poetry. <..> This is poetic prose at its best.