A Sky Full Of Wings by Ksenia Rychtycka – NWVS #157

“The poems that make up A Sky Full Of Wings carry readers on a journey rich with longing and loss, with the elation born from first steps, first love and bright, new surroundings. In this haunting collection, the journeys are physical and psychological, joyful and poignant such as the revelations that come in Poem For The Child Who Doesn’t Speak. On the trampoline you are poised like a bird/…Our eyes meet/ and then you rise higher than I can reach/ my arms cradling only air. Heartbreaking and healing and deeply life-affirming, this collection soars.”

–Laura Bernstein-Machlay, author of Travelers

“The poems of a true inheritor: watchful, quiet, life-stunned: heavy and alive with beauties and sorrows both present and past.”

–Olena Kalytiak Davis, author of four books of poetry, including The Poem She Didn’t Write And Other Poems

“Like the birds that permeate her evocative poems, Ksenia Rychtycka crisscrosses the ocean from Detroit to Ukraine as she guides us through the sinuous paths of her journey from childhood to present. With a feather-light touch that reaches immeasurable depth — through stories of four generations of her family — she honors centuries of the turbulent history of her native land. Along the way, she invites us to see this earth which has molded her, feel this wind that has carried her, embrace the rain that has opened each fragile bud and washed away pain and sadness. She has opened her heart.”

–Myrosia Stefaniuk, author of Dibrova Diary

Review:

January 2022 Issue – Donovan’s Bookshelf (reviewer’s website: Diane Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review)

January 2022 Issue – Donovan’s Bookshelf

Columbia College interview:

Review: https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/a-sky-full-of-wings