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PRAISE FOR NEW YORK AND OTHER TIMES

Natalia's New York and Other Times stirs poetry into a tee to seep gently.
Delicious. AAAH!
Here is Russia inside New York.

- Bob Holman is the host of Bowery Poetry Club in New York
   the author of The Collect Call of the Wild
   One of the leaders in Slam Poetry

Natalia Zaretsky writes English poetry that has Russian soul and Jewish ecstasy hidden in each line-break and assonance. Having arrived to the United States in her middle age without knowing a single word of English this brave and passionate woman has adopted English to express her desire and wisdom in words that are both beautiful and humane. There is equal measure of grief and joy in her work -- her sorrows are tender and her tenderness is thoughtful. Her blank verse is musical and her music is memorable. I am grateful to her for that.

- Ilya Kaminsky,
   author of "Dancing in Odessa", Winner of the Tupelo Press Dorset Prize
   editor of Tupelo Press

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