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NAME OVER begins where it ends, when the mask is finally shed and the faceless mirror loses its knowledge of speech. What remains is the translucent moment of clarity, that through the light of creation, ones own consciousness is removed.

This gripping debut of English poetry by Taras Malkovych is a chase of ones own self perceived identity, 28 pages of new verse from Ukraine deftly translated by Olena Jennings. This is not a book that one says that you just can't put down, you just don't have much of a choice as each piece flows masterfully into the next and leaves you questioning where one poem begins, another ends, and who in fact am I in this process, these profound questionings generated by an urgent sense of realization, find the pages swiftly turning, and by the finish, NAME OVER.

Underground Books is proud to add Taras Malkovych's English Poetry Debut and recommends it as a perfect accompaniment for any underground or subway travel, for beneath the streets this book will help recreate one owns self-perceived identity as stop for stop this book delivers poetry that gets the real you, the throbbing pulse underneath the masks and names we so easily transverse life, a fitting new beginning from a new voice in English poetry.