Without Protection
Without Protection explores various parts of Gala's identity-her Russianness, her family ties, her sexuality, her immigrant experience-in an unapologetically feminist and sensual way, and a younger generation of readers will no doubt be interested in the questions of selfhood that she raises in her work. Gala's poetry is rigorous and inventive at once, and serious poetry readers will recognize the traditions of Tsvetaeva and Akhmatova here. Gala is the very popular horoscope writer for Nylon, and fans of her empathetic astrological observations will be excited for this new collection.
Gala Mukomolova earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. She is the author of the chapbook One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations (YesYes Books 2018), and her poetry and essays have appeared in POETRY, PEN America, the Billfold, and elsewhere. In 2016 Gala won the Discovery Poetry Prize. She writes astrology-inspired love letters under the name Galactic Rabbit.
