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Paul Dry Books, paperback

Publication Date: April 5, 2022

Publisher Marketing:A tender collection of original and translated poetry from the editor of theLos Angeles Review of Booksexploring the lives and longing of Russian immigrants in L.A.

“The wit and daring of his rhymes and phrasing remind me of that old master, Donald Justice, who dazzled us with the elegance of his forms. Dralyuk carries this high style into the 21st century, and I, for one, am thrilled to be in the presence of his marvelous verbal art. Pay attention, readers: a new maestro is in our midst.”Ilya Kaminsky, author ofDeaf RepublicandDancing in Odessa

My Hollywood and Other Poemsis a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of migrs in Los Angeles. In forms ranging from ballades to villanelles to Onegin sonnets, the poems pursue the sublime in a tarnished landscape, seek continuity and mourn its loss in a town where change is the only constant.My Hollywooddraws on the poets own life as a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union, honors the vanishing traces of the citys past, and, in crisp and evocative translations, summons the voices of five Russian poets who spent their final years in LA, including the composer Vernon Duke.

“My Hollywoodis a book to savor.”A. M. Juster, author ofWonder & Wrath

“A beautifully evocative debut.Vona Groarke, author ofSpindriftandDouble Negative