Description: Iya Kiva's poetry, collected in English translation in Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters, stitches memories of the past into Ukraine's new reality. Her lyric poems reflect her Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish backgrounds and acknowledge the deep trauma of war while radiating love and hope.
Brief description: Iya Kiva is an award-winning poet, translator, and journalist from Donetsk, now living in Lviv, Ukraine. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, Further from Heaven and The First Page of Winter.
Review Quotes: This collection is an emotionally challenging read, with deeply explored themes of displacement, memory, resistance, and resilience. These poems are heavy with pain but also full of artistic and creative transformation, salvaging beauty from destruction. An appreciation for what was lost, what remains, and what may come.--Todd Larkin Tremble "swamp pink" (7/29/2026 12:00:00 AM)