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between the medulla oblongata &the soul.piercing the body as you enter into it.lying in wait for thereader are many headed poems,some venomous,others painfullysweet,yet filled with melancholy &longing.some are songs aboutsongs.arrhythmic rhymes that seduce the psyche.brutally honest&at times,frightening.rarely serene.all based in the mythology ofwhat we refer to as \"reality.\"engaged with &trapped within theirown freedoms.greco-roman images lying naked beside woody allen’'sbad jokes,engulfing the elements,earth,stone,air,water with their\"suicidal impulses,\"varied forms &dreams.what is revealed is amind tortured by its own beauty,anger &distress.a heart filled withemotions,denials,betrayals &refusals.self-denial &self-assurance.pride.pimps.hookers.lonely homeless “aliens.”  \nthis is a dance with death,love &an abundant ability to caresslanguage &all its nuances.\"the dead are dead,but not within me,my holocaust today,forever my bread.\"a new archaic modernismmuch needed in a world of false romanticism &post-post language-oriented verse where the beauty of word/image has all but beensubverted,seduced,abandoned &forgotten.even as shmailo decries\"larissa's rose is sick &consuming me\"what we feel,beside extremeempathy,is the strength of her life force/breath as it forges onwardwhile pondering even plundering itself.there are love poems that\"crack ...the force of gravity.\"pleas.accusations.threats.druginduced psychoses.confessions of an often poisoned \"being\"whois so aware of the poison in others.“your heart beats not for me...your empty heart.….you'll be my heart/a numb fexible pleasure.\"reach out &allow these poems touch you with their passions as they“turn particles into power.”  \n—steve dalachinsky nyc sept.2016  \nThere are days Iam bored with poetry and days I think it is a waste ofhuman effort.Reading Larissa Shmailo's collection reminds me whyI love the genre and proves what kinds of beauty and intelligencecan exist in language.There is a lyric lift to every line and a directhonesty in every message that heartens me and renews me.Thepoems in this book deserve to be read and read again.I thank thepoet for the renewal of faith.  \n—Okla Elliott,author of The Cartographer's Ink and From the Crooked Timber  \nLarissa Shmailo,in her new collection of poems,Medusa's Country,has given us a map of her life,with all the blasted,post-apocalypticcities she's journeyed through etched in blood on it.She is a truth-teller,and that is one of her strengths.But she is also smart;sheknows the artifacts of this culture and she uses them to great effect.We go from Natalie Wood,through Plato's Retreat,to Cythera,andthat's just scratching the surface.This is the guidebook you need topack in your suitcase for your own journey through Hell.  \n—Ron Kolm,contributing editor of Sensitive Skin and author of Night Shift.  \n# MEDUSA's CoUNTRY\n\nLarissa Shmailo  \nMADHAT PRESSASHEVILLE,NoRTH CAROLINA  \nMadHat PressMadHat IncorporatedPO Box 8364,Asheville,NC 28814  \nCopyright ◎2016 Larissa ShmailoAll rights reserved  \nThe Library of Congress has assignedthis edition a Control Number of2016915269  \nISBN 978-1-941196-38-0(paperback)  \nCover art by Robert HuntCover design by Marc VincenzBook design by MadHat Press  \nwww.MadHat-Press.com  \nFirst Printing  \nOTHER WoRKS BY LARISSA SHMAILOPoetry  \n\\#specialcharacters(Unlikely Books,2014)  \nFib Sequence(chapbook)(Argotist Ebooks,2011)In Paran(BlazeVOX [books],2009)A Cure for Suicide(chapbook)(Červená Barva Press,2006)  \n## Fiction\n\nPatient Women,A Novel(BlazeVOX [books],2015)  \n## Translations\n\nVictory over the Sun by Alexei Kruchenych (Červená Barva Press,2014)  \nBibliography of Bible Translations in the Languages of the RussianFederation,Other Countries in the Commonwealth of IndependentStates,and the Baltic States(American Bible Society,publicationpending)  \nExorcism(SongCrew,2009)The No-Net World (SongCrew,2006) 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