Your Life as It Is

Poetry December 2014 ISBN 978-1-936628-29-2 30 pages Softcover, 5½" x 8½"

Your Life as It Is is the winner of the Editor's Choice award for the 2014 Poetry Chapbook competition. "Although each of A. Molotkov's daybook prose poems begins with 'You wake up in the morning …,' everything else—including the speaker's gender—is in flux. This is the multiverse wherein 'changes replace changes,' wherein the speaker must continually create and re-create perception and personal history. These poems create a cumulative effect both moving and unsettling."—Paulann Petersen

About the Author

A. Molotkov

Born in Russia, A. Molotkov moved to the US in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993. Published or accepted by The Kenyon Review, Mad Hatters Review, 2River, Perihelion, Word Riot, Identity Theory, Pif, and many more, Molotkov is winner of New Millennium Writings and Koeppel fiction contests, and a poetry chapbook contest for his True Stories from the Future. He co-edits The Inflectionist Review and serves on the Board of Directors of Oregon Poetry Association. Molotkov's new translation of a Chekhov story was included by Knopf in their Everyman Series.