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Poems by Elina Petrova
The inaugural title in the Mutable Lines Chapbook Series, A Bird From Ukraine introduces Elina Petrova’s unforgettable voice—urgent, lyrical, and deeply rooted in place.
Her poems move fluidly between past and present, where native birds carry memory and moments of beauty coexist with histories of loss.
From the grittiness of life in a mining town, “Call this good times if you never smelled methane,” to the unimaginable horrors of war in her native Ukraine, she watches from her home in Houston where “a neighbor’s star jasmine and the bassline/ of a quinceañera wafts into our quiet blue room.”
At once intimate and expansive, Petrova’s poems resonate with wit, empathy, and a haunting sense of longing.
–Mutabilis Press
Poems by Elina Petrova
The inaugural title in the Mutable Lines Chapbook Series, A Bird From Ukraine introduces Elina Petrova’s unforgettable voice—urgent, lyrical, and deeply rooted in place.
Her poems move fluidly between past and present, where native birds carry memory and moments of beauty coexist with histories of loss.
From the grittiness of life in a mining town, “Call this good times if you never smelled methane,” to the unimaginable horrors of war in her native Ukraine, she watches from her home in Houston where “a neighbor’s star jasmine and the bassline/ of a quinceañera wafts into our quiet blue room.”
At once intimate and expansive, Petrova’s poems resonate with wit, empathy, and a haunting sense of longing.
–Mutabilis Press