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Shmailo’s “Madwoman” series was performed in its entirety on radio WNYE New York, NY and received a “Critic’s Pick” notice from the New York Times. Shmailo has also been a frequent guest on WBAI, and has received excellent critical notices from the Daily News, Time Out Magazine, and the Village Voice.

Shmailo is translator of the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych, performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, and commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum. A DVD of the original English-language production is part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Hirsshorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institute, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  She also contributed translations to the new anthology Contemporary Russian Poetry published by Dalkey Archive Press

Shmailo’s poetry CDs, The No-Net World (SongCrew 2006) and Exorcism (2008) are frequently heard on radio and Internet broadcasts. Larissa is the recipient of 2009 New Century Music Awards for spoken word with jazz, electronica, and rock. 

Larissa’s new full-length collection of poetry, In Paran, is now available from Amazon.


]]> 53 female New York, NY 06/2008 12/2009 ]]> 160 44 25 true 5721419 read 1 true 2729652 currently-reading 18 true 2729651 to-read 0 false 3009970 poetry In Paran (Paperback) by Larissa Shmailo]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55569022 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51IS7snnHIL._SL75_.jpg 1287873 Larissa Shmailo http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1246789386p2/1287873.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1287873-larissa-shmailo Sun, 10 May 2009 09:13:43 -0700 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/39804-new-century-music-awards http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1246789386p2/1287873.jpg 1287873 Larissa Shmailo http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1246789386p2/1287873.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1287873-larissa-shmailo Fri, 01 May 2009 09:05:10 -0700 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2126866-anne-pluto http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1250344391p2/2126866.jpg 1287873 Larissa Shmailo http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1246789386p2/1287873.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1287873-larissa-shmailo Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:25:16 -0700 Larissa]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/76681-goodreads-monthly-newsletter-poem-contest http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1182288212p2/233.jpg 1287873 Larissa Shmailo http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1246789386p2/1287873.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1287873-larissa-shmailo Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:03:37 -0800

Call me Ishmael: My mother was a slave in the house of a patriarch
Hand against her thigh, he swore to raise her firstborn
But he lied. He threw my mother out; she made it to Paran
She found a well and didn’t die. She saw God and lived;
I saw demons, and thrived.

I grew up wild and reckless in the land of desert nomads,
In the arid lands that lie near the promised land and Egypt,
That land of milk and honey they were saving for my brother
And the land of Pharaoh’s bondage where my mother’s kin were born.
I lived my youth near Canaan and the slaving lands of Egypt;
I lived my life an outcast in the desert of Paran.

I grew up wild and stubborn: My hand against my father
At war with all my kinfolk; my kin at war with me.
I grew up wild and skittish like a scared colt in a sandstorm.
I laughed at mules and camels that never could break free.

I learned to run in sandstorms, and how to eat my water,
And how to find oases, and how to take the heat.
I learned to talk to demons, to tempters and to genies.
I learned to talk to devils, to outcasts just like me.

I learned to love and pity my younger brother Isaac
When they took him to the slaughter not even asking why.

God bade me make the manna for Isaac and his children.
My demons said they’d be here, twelve tribes of them someday.
In this land of desert nomads near the promised land and Egypt,
Near the land of milk and honey in the desert of Paran.





]]> Tremble and Shine (Paperback) by Todd Colby]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35222825 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177747785s/730315.jpg 1287873 Larissa Shmailo http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1246789386p2/1287873.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1287873-larissa-shmailo Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:14:16 -0700