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*THIS BOOK WILL BE PUBLISHED (AND SHIPPED TO YOU) ON APRIL 16TH, 2026*

Braslavsky has the poetic power to render the comfortable alien, the beautiful grotesque, and the lasagna unappetizing. This chapbook builds a world for itself — a cave filled with trinkets stolen from our homes but made new, nearly unrecognizable in their meticulous exhibit with their new labels. The poems circle themes thoughtfully and from various critical angles until you see, suddenly, stunningly, a gorgeous web tied in place just for you.

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“Wind luscious in the pinkyard. Next to me, a princess is in threadbare,

pterodactyl headgear. It’s why we can’t stick to subject. Today, I saved

a plastic fork from my complimentary, continental breakfast. They dyed

the Chicago River green and bagpipes interrupted our panel. A helpful

metal drum pounded by the river edge. The man in Walgreen’s cleaned up

all of the flyway’s surrounding my face for my passport.

I am involved in the world.”

— an excerpt from the titular poem, “Pinkyard”

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Alex Braslavsky is a poet, translator, and scholar. Her poems appear in Rhino, Conjunctions, and Colorado Review, among other journals. Her translation of On Centaurs & Other Poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka was shortlisted for the American Literary Translators’ Association First Translation Prize in 2024. She presented her research on older women poets of the Slavic world as a Harvard Horizons Scholar during National Poetry Month in 2025. Pinkyard is her first chapbook.