Fib Sequence

by Larissa Shmailo

Like the seeds on the head of a sunflower, the poems, translations, and story in “Fib Sequence” by Larissa Shmailo whorl according to a special pattern. Here you will find spiders, jealous women, numbers, half-truths, a dangerous dictionary and a few naughty words. Enjoy your encounter.

25 pages, ebook

First published July 19, 2011

About the author

Larissa Shmailo's new book is Dora / Lora, a poetry collection about the mass starvation in the Ukraine in the 1930s and the role of Ukrainian collaborators in the Nazi death camps seen through the lens of one family. Her latest self help book is the Writing Resilience Workbook, a book of prompts desgned to elicit elements of the writer's story and form the basis of a memoir. Larissa is the leader and writing coach for the Writing Resilience Workshop for writers and aspiring writers affected by trauma, addiction, and/or mental illness. Larissa's most recent novel is Sly Bang (Spuyten Duyvil); her first novel is Patient Women (BlazeVOX). Her poetry collections are Dora / Lora (Unlikely Books), Medusa’s Country (MadHat), #specialcharacters (Unlikely Books), In Paran (BlazeVOX), the chapbook A Cure for Suicide (Červená Barva Press), and the e-book Fib Sequence (Argotist EBooks). Her poetry CDs are The No-Net World and Exorcism; tracks are available from iTunes, Amazon, Deezer, Spotify, and most digital distributors. Shmailo’s work has appeared in the anthologies Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters (Penguin Random House), Words for the Wedding (Penguin), Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey), Resist Much/Obey Little: Poems for the Inaugural (Spuyten Duyvil), and many others. Shmailo is the original English-language translator of the first Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by Alexei Kruchenych, performed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Garage Museum of Moscow, the Brooklyn Academy of Art, and theaters and universities worldwide. Shmailo also edited the anthology Twenty-first Century Russian Poetry (Big Bridge Press) and has been a translator on the Russian Bible for the Eugene A. Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship of the American Bible Society. Please see more about Larissa at her website www.larissashmailo.com . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larissa....

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[Larissa Shmailo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like the seeds on the head of a sunflower, the poems, translations, and story in “Fib Sequence” by Larissa Shmailo whorl according to a special pattern. Here you will find arachnids, jealous women, numbers, half-truths, a dangerous dictionary and a few naughty words. Enjoy your encounter.