Introduction: An Invitation to Readers
Part 1: Bronx Beginnings
Girlfriends
Escapeto America
Imperfect Glass
Pigeons of Heiden
Pilgrimage
After Church, Yugoslavia
Mamica
Peasant Roots
My Violin Loves to Play
Part 2: Activist
Emerging Voices
Can Factory Sonnets
Woman Machinist
Kosovo Diary: June/July 1999
South Africa: For Nelson Mandela
The Rest is Poetry: Why We Come Out
The Real Poem
Part 3: Journeys and Interviews in Russia
Revolutionary Romances
Siberians: Two Interviews
Amazon Sisters on the Trans-Siberian Railroad
The Siberian Interviews Journal: July 1995
Eighteen Years in the Gulag: Kuzmich
In the Crimea
Flowers for Sveta
Meeting Shamans
Smitten with Lyuba
Sissies and Queers
Who Was Sophia Parnok?
Kaleidoscope
for Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941)
My Tsvetaeva
Interview with Me
Acknowledgments and Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Praise for My Pink Road to Russia
Copyright