Purgatory: Poems and Stories

By Anna-Nina G. Kovalenko

Collection of poems and short stories - about the beauty of the world,
about the vicissitudes of life, situations, relationships,
in the form of prose or rhyme reflecting the aesthetic and sometimes ironic vision of the author.
The book designed to help the reader learn some truths of life
and in general to raise his (her) spirits

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 13, 2006
• ISBN: 9781465331465

Anna-Nina G. Kovalenko

Photo Taken by Clarissa Pane Uvegi Anna-Nina Kovalenko ...Was born and grew up in a small Siberian village, in Old believers family. Studied in Moscow, Power Engineering Institute, then State Cinematography Institute. Worked for Siberian TV and newspaper. Back to Moscow; trained as an artist under Alexey Maximov. Became a member of Independent Artists Association (Malaya Gruzinskaya, 28). Organized exhibitions with young hippy artists, most remarkable the show-parade “Art is stronger than Bombs”. Member of group of peace initiatives “Trust” (Group for trust and confidence between East and West). For solo peace activity was arrested and imprisoned. Released was granted political asylum by US Embassy and in 1987 arrived to New York. Since then Member of Salon des Independants (Paris) and few art groups. Recipient of diplomas and medals from Ministery Cultural Affairs Francais. Member of Russian Writers Club, NY and Pen American Center. Published 17 books and many stories in Russian and English magazines and languages. Lives and works in New York.

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Purgatory

POEMS AND STORIES

Anna-Nina G. Kovalenko

Copyright © 2006 by Anna-Nina G. Kovalenko.

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Contents

Self-obituary

Poet & Pueblo

M R. Cox And M R. Box

History Story

Domineering Dreams

It’s My Fault

Diarrhea

Aging

All About Men

All About Women

In The Heart Of The

Heart Of The Art

Izergil*

Harlequin In New York

Soul

Trinity

Miss 2000s

Darkness…

Sunday

Somehow Once

Letter On The Sand

Master And Margarita

Konstantinofeelia

Michaelomania

My Favorite Season

Five Steps To Resurrection

One Indian Summer

The Dog

The Old Gipsy

Self-obituary

Will pass away Anna-Nina G. Kovalenko, the artist, human rights defender, writer, author of Unidentified Flying Objects, White Horse, Five Steps to Resurrection, Feminine Perversions, Beyond the Little Prince, Thousand Leaf, and of many other stories, essays, and even poems.

The heroine of her novel White Horse ( Manuscript Found in Upper Bay, or White Horse) said  . . . I compare life, i.e. lives—with art; and I discover the following: life is a series of permanently changing pictures; it is possible (and we have to) to view them for a long time, independent of the fact how long someone lives on Earth—a hundred years of a couple of minutes… because one hundred and twenty seconds for viewing beauty is not such a short period…

Let Peace and Beauty of the World follow ashes of M-me Kovalenko.

Poet & Pueblo

—Poet. He, she, it? . . . Nothingness, Unwanted.

Flying object. Vast of nonsense. Occupant of emptiness. Ouch, ouch of/from our family with suitable family values.

—Pueblo. Poor ones. Snails. Unable to reach heaven they crowd in shells they call homes and/or churches, mumbling about LOVE, GOD (and they call those prayers) while almighty Lord, ignoring their molecular dignities as well as micro-sins, patiently begs for sacred silence.

M R. Cox And M R. Box

. . . 254 East Fifty Seventh

Smart and majestic lived Mr. Cox

254 West Fifty Seventh

Simply ignorant lived Mr. Box

They were so different! Water and stone

Ice and fire, eagle and ox.

Cox was so elegant, Box—like clown

Cox loved box, Box loved cokes…

While Mr. Cox from East Fifty Seventh

Happily married rich Mrs. Bucks

Poor Mr. Box from West Fifty Seventh

Feared to be arrested possessing drugs.

Although recognize them extremely easy:

West—Mr. Box, East—Mr. Cox

Somehow one delivery service

Put down letter in wrong P.O. Box.

You know what happened?