On This Path: Poems and Translations

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. 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. 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. To read Inna's poetry is to encounter a passionate literature in its most honest, uncorrupted state, like breathing pure oxygen. On This Path will open readers' hearts and minds, and move them further on their own explorative paths to wisdom.