GODS of UNFINISHED BUSINESS

What is Nina Kossman's God, and what kind of Unfinished Business are we about to get into, I wondered, opening thisbook of poems. "History Transformed into Myth," the subtitle at the front of these pages warned, and I wonderedwhat is history if not already a myth. That's what I thought, getting started, yes-right before Ilearned that Kossman sent me these poems from a warzone, literally: the poet's e-mail said she was in the occupied Ukraineat that time. And just like that, the mythological history, whatever that is, became a documentary fact.Facts take an interesting role in this collection of poems, actually: we begin with an echo of an ancient Akkadian textalso taking place in a warzone, though of a very different kind. And, indeed, the myth comes forth. Or, rather, the myth isdenied us ("What Ismul's soul learned in the city of souls is never revealed") only to be revealed as the pages turn:

• | Author: Nina Kossman
• | Publisher: Cervena Barva Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 136 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 195006364X
• | ISBN-13: 9781950063642