On This Path

That Inna Kogan is a pulmonary specialist comes as no surprise after reading her work. Inna's poetry is concerned with breath on many levels-the breath of life the breath of the soul the breath of individual being.</P>Her poems travel inward on a journey of self-discovery and outward to the reader on a path of spiritual enervation. Inna is not afraid to tackle dark components of her psyche-denial depression self-centeredness and crippling fears. Her poems ask difficult questions both of others-family friends lovers-and herself. Answers are transitory fluid as breath leading to deeper and deeper questioning.</P>In addition to her own work Kogan also presents translations of the poetry of well-known Russian psychiatrist Vladimir Levi. Levi's poems explore similar themes with a unique sense of humor wit and stylistic language.</P>To read Inna's poetry is to encounter a passionate literature in its most honest uncorrupted state like breathing pure oxygen. <I>On This Path</I> will open readers' hearts and minds and move them further on their own explorative paths to wisdom.