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...