“The genius of a poet is measured by his ability to overcome time within himself. Even more precisely, it’s what time does to language. Yana Jean's poems amaze me with the absence of time in them. She ensures this victory over him by not allowing him into her poems, by neglecting his limiting features. This is how the prophet conquers his time, by looking through it into the future. The contextual virtuosity of Yana Jean’s poetry does not need proof: it is obvious... Yana Jean’s poems represent a rarely felt unity of wisdom, mastery of words and virtuosity in the combination of sounds.” Joseph Brodsky