Larissa Shmailo Larissa Shmailo is a poet and a translator. Her recent book of poetry is In Paran (BlazeVox; available from Amazon). Her poetry CDs are Exorcism and The No-Net World, with music by Bobby Perfect (available on iTunes and CDBaby). Larissa translated the Russian transrational opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych, and contributed translations to the anthology Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey Archive Press). Along with Manny Molecular, Daniel produced and remixed an electronic piece for Larissa's poem Quantum Love. In 2009 Larissa was the recipient of the People's Choice awards for spoken word with rock, jazz, and electronica from New Century Music in New york. At the awards ceremony she performed the electronic version of Quantum Love and received excellent critical notices from the Daily News, Time Out Magazine, and the Village Voice.