Ledger of Crossroads

James Brasfield has twice been a Senior Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine and has received fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Prize in Translation and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His books include The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha (translator), and Inheritance and Other Poems. The poems of his newest collection, Ledger of Crossroads, fuse the distinct yet inseparable geographies of America and Eastern Europe, allowing readers to experience "the identities of others, their time and place, and from the strata of their histories, to experience their lives."