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Bare Soul is a bilingual poetry collection written by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, translated into Ukrainian by Ihor Pavlyuk, that journeys inward through love, loss, longing, and spiritual awakening, while remaining deeply attentive to the world beyond the self. Written in luminous, image-driven language, the poems move through nature, memory, silence, and desire to explore the contradictions of being human-strength and vulnerability, solitude and union, pain and renewal. Rooted in lyric introspection yet expansive in vision, Bare Soul draws on elemental imagery and philosophical reflection to create a meditative space where personal experience meets universal emotion. Presented here in English and Ukrainian, the collection invites readers across languages and cultures to encounter poetry as a shared act of listening, witnessing, and transformation.