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Lucía M. Polis

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Born

in Moscow, Russian Federation

Website

https://shefulloflight.ca/

Genre

Poetry, Gay and Lesbian

Influences

Stanley Cooperman, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Joseph Heller ...more

Member Since

January 2025

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My name is Lucía M. Polis (she / her). I am a neuroqueer poet, translator, and editor. I hold a Ph.D. in literary translation studies and I have been writing and translating poetry since 1996.

I was born in Moscow, in the imaginary country known as the U.S.S.R., lived in Israel—during the Gulf War and the First Intifada—and in Canada, and then worked in Japan and the United States.

Before the COVID Pandemic, I visited more than twenty-five countries. At any given point in time, I know between three and five languages.

Aside from poems unborn, stillborn, unwritten, destroyed, or lost, I have to date created more than 1,000 poems, some of which have appeared in Uprooted and The Liar; in my collections Granville, We Were Hateful ...more

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Year of the Horse

In Raskol’nikov’s first dream
he goes to his little brother’s grave.
He crosses himself, kneels before it,
kisses it.

Holding his father’s hand
he passes by the kabák,
where they're all drunk, singing.
There, hitched to the heavy cart,

stands a gaunt nag, one score years
of age. They laugh at her, shout “Lash ’er!”
as Mikolka calls up one more lout
to her back.

“In the head! In the eyes!”—
they sing out, bea

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	We Were Hateful People by Michael G. Khmelnitsky (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lucía M. Polis (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming: An Anthology of What-If Poems about Women and Womanhood by Lucía M. Polis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katie Cowger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Gower (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Love of a Good Man: Queer Colour Edition by Michael G. Khmelnitsky (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lucía M. Polis (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smoked Frames by S. Rupsha Mitra (Goodreads Author), Michael G. Khmelnitsky (Goodreads Author) (editor), Lucía M. Polis (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex, Lies, and Red Tape: Ideological and Political Barriers in Soviet Translation of Cold War American Satire, 1964-1988 by Michael G. Khmelnitsky (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lucía M. Polis (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Love of a Good Man: The Queer Epic Poem it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granville: 20th Anniversary Edition, Expanded & Revised it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holes: An Anthology of Poems about Depths, Darkness, and Desire by Michael G. Khmelnitsky (Goodreads Author) (Editor), James S. Chumsa (Editor), Hannah R. Mondiwa (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lucía M. Polis wrote a new blog post Year of the Horse In Raskol’nikov’s first dreamhe goes to his little brother’s grave.He crosses himself, kneels before it,kisses it. Holding his father’s handhe passes Read more of this blog post »
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