Thousandfold

Nina Bogin’s Thousandfold is a journey through seasons and landscapes, a journal of ordinary life punctuated by extraordinary people and moments—the births of grandchildren, the physical decline of a husband, relationships with family and friends. Her poems connect the unknowable past of ancestors to the equally unfathomable future of descendants, between which there fluctuates a present that is no less elusive, even as the poet gives it a structure in language. If life is full of uncertainties, our world at once threatened and threatening, then what brings constancy, hope, solace?

Bogin’s intimate, exploratory poems take on greater poignancy as the author faces the subject of her husband’s dementia and begins to find her way into a life both with and without him.

Nina Bogin, poet and translator, was born in New York City and has lived in France since 1976. Her previous collections are In the North, The Winter Orchards and The Lost Hare. In addition to numerous translations in the domain of art history, her translation of The Illiterate by Agota Kristof was published in 2013.