Sasha Moroz—a poet, artist, and translator who moves fluidly between these mediums—presents her first full-length prose work, which calls to mind the filmography of an eccentric like Soderbergh, pressed onto the page.

*Celestial Heaps* (*Kuchki nebesnye*) is a collection of artifacts spanning various genres: from modernist micro-plays and oneiric sketches to domestic and romantic dramas, as well as vivid, decal-like snapshots of Moscow’s post-reality during the era of the "Great Nightmare."

This glitchy, cinematic assemblage is edited together by a keen sensibility—one in which a sharply tuned existential perspective and a detached, aestheticized sensuality boldly negate one another, only to achieve a state of complete, mutual realization.

"This text will definitely come in handy.
It is self-sufficient.
Laconic.
Timely—relevant, too.
And it ends quickly.
In short, it’s a necessary text..."