Carmine Lullabies – Marilena Zackheos Poems

Carmine Lullabies is a collection of ruminations about one-on-one intimate encounters. It signals a coming-of-age trajectory, specifically in terms of the ways loss is managed by the work’s many female personas.

Marilena Zackheos grew up in Moscow, Beijing, Nicosia, Geneva and New York City. Her poems have been translated in Greek, Turkish, Serbian, Albanian and German. They have been featured in regional journals, anthologies as well as literary magazines in Europe and across the Atlantic.