Maxim D. Shrayer 
Kinship [EPUB ebook] 

Kinship1

At the Elbow of Cape Cod3

The Linguist4

Valse Triste5

Stronger: For Tatiana6

Minsk Elegy7

Apples ‘n Honey9

L’Éducation Sentimentale10

Bilateral Pneumonia11

A Russian-American Novel12

The Speaker’s Departure13

Three Incarnations of a Moscow Childhood Dachshund14

The Bombing of Odessa15

For My Daughters, on Yom Kippur17

Immigrant Quatrains of Clarity18

Bats at Sunset20

Madness21

My Talented Aunt and Her Political Allegiances22

Estonia. Many Years Hence…23

Eretz Israel: Seven Poems24

The Salt Pond in Autumn30

Crimean Sonnet31

Tired32

Homecoming33

Maxim D. Shrayer, bilingual author, scholar, and translator, was born in Moscow in 1967 to a Jewish-Russian family and immigrated to the United States in 1987. A professor at Boston College, Shrayer has authored and edited more than twenty-five books. His recent poetry collections include the Russian-language Stikhi iz aipada (Poems from the i Pad, Tel Aviv, 2022) and the English-language Of Politics and Pandemics (Boston, 2020). Among Shrayer’s other books are the literary memoirs Waiting for America, Leaving Russia, and Immigrant Baggage. He is the recipient of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Dr. Karen E. Lasser, their daughters, Mira Isabella and Tatiana Rebecca, and their silver Jewdle, Stella.