Zoya Sachko’s poems included in the collection One More Spring are interesting primarily for their language – she wrote her poems in the Podlassie dialect that is still alive in eastern Bialystok region villages. Zoya Sachko’s poems are like an encyclopedia of village life. One can find there daily village business, the beauty of nature located somewhere close, at a stone’s throw not beyond the horizon or behind the city’s last high-rise building. A meticulous observer and a person naturally connected with daily village life, Zoya can express what rises, sings and rages in her soul. Every poem is a separate life story while the collection as a whole is one popular poem. (N.H.)