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With a near-compulsive insistence, Notes of the Phantom Woman addresses the question of what reality is and how we construct it. Ranging in subject from the presence of pigeons in the city, the dead ends of logic, how geological time becomes personal, and the boundary between statistics and Hell, the poems are connected by a rigorous inquiry into the illusions of thinking, the blind spots of utopianism, and the trouble with moral positioning. Results of such a task are—predictably—unpredictable; a healthy dose of black humor helps the poetry go down.

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Iana Boukova is a Bulgarian poet and writer. She is the author of four poetry books, two short story collections, and the novel Traveling in the Direction of the Shadow, which is forthcoming from New York Review Books in 2026. Her poetry collection Notes of the Phantom Woman was published in 2018 and received the National Award for most outstanding book of Bulgarian poetry. A Greek-language version of it was also published in Athens simultaneously under the title Drapetomania. English translations of her work have appeared in Best European Fiction 2017, Words Without Borders, Two Lines, Absinthe, The Southern Review, and Exchanges among others. She lives between Sofia and Athens, where she is an editor on the board of the influential Greek poetry magazine FRMK.

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