Overview
A Sky Full Of Wings is a compelling and heartwarming collection that delves into the themes of journeying, home, ancestral land and circle of life. Personal experiences are interwoven with family history, highlighting journeys -- both physical and psychological -- that are encountered along the way. Individual poems received honorable mentions in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards and the Rochester Writers Margo Lagattuta Award Contest. The book was selected as a finalist in the 2020 New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition.
Full Product Details
Author: Ksenia Rychtycka
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Imprint: Finishing Line Press
Volume: 157
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 0.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.068kg
ISBN: 9781646626151
ISBN 10: 164662615
Pages: 44
Publication Date: 10 September 2021
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""The poems that make up A Sky Full Of Wings carry readers on a journey rich with longing and loss, with the elation born from first steps, first love and bright, new surroundings. In this haunting collection, the journeys are physical and psychological, joyful and poignant such as the revelations that come in Poem For The Child Who Doesn't Speak. On the trampoline you are poised like a bird/...Our eyes meet/ and then you rise higher than I can reach/ my arms cradling only air. Heartbreaking and healing and deeply life-affirming, this collection soars."" -Laura Bernstein-Machlay, author of Travelers ""The poems of a true inheritor: watchful, quiet, life-stunned: heavy and alive with beauties and sorrows both present and past."" -Olena Kalytiak Davis, author of four books of poetry, including The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems ""Like the birds that permeate her evocative poems, Ksenia Rychtycka crisscrosses the ocean from Detroit to Ukraine as she guides us through the sinuous paths of her journey from childhood to present. With a feather-light touch that reaches immeasurable depth-through stories of four generations of her family-she honors centuries of the turbulent history of her native land. Along the way, she invites us to see this earth which has molded her, feel this wind that has carried her, embrace the rain that has opened each fragile bud and washed away pain and sadness. She has opened her heart."" -Myrosia Stefaniuk, author of Dibrova Diary"
Author Information
Ksenia Rychtycka is a Ukrainian-American poet and author of Crossing The Border (Little Creek Books, 2012). Her poems and short stories have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Literary Bohemian, Dunes Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Hubbub and The Wisconsin Review. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago and is a copy editor at a downtown Detroit ad agency.
