 | Say Thank You (In the Grip of Strange Thoughts) (Russian Edition) Publication Date: September 1, 2006| Series: In the Grip of Strange Thoughts Mikhail Aizenberg’s poems articulate a personal response from the perspective of countercultural alternatives to the erratic climate of the political global warming of Russia’s past two decades. When the cultural history of Russia’s turn to the twenty-first century is written, the epigraphs will be drawn from Aizenberg’s poetry. ...
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 | A STRANGER TO HEAVEN AND EARTH (Shambhala Centaur Editions) ...
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 | The Acmeist Movement in Russian Poetry: Culture and the Word (Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs) Publication Date: June 29, 1995| Series: Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs Acmeism is chiefly known through the three leading Russian poets--Nikolai Gumilev, Ann Akhmatova, and Osip Mandel'shtam--each of whom are discussed here, along with less well-known Acmeists, in the first extensive study in English of the movement. Doherty's fascinating study shows how early twentieth-century Acmeism developed into a specific way of thinking about poetry and the Russian literary tradition, and how this thinking evolved out of poetry criticism as practiced in the main Acmeist forum, Tsekh ...
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 | Through the Poet's Eye: The Travels of Zagajewski, Herbert, and Brodsky Publication Date: June 25, 2002An exploration of the sensory experience of travel and the corresponding revelatory perception of the visual arts in the essays of three major East European poets. ...
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 | Remembering Anna Akhmatova ...
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 | Red Shifting: Poems and Essays (Eastern European Poets Series) (Russian Edition) Publication Date: April 1, 2007| Series: Eastern European Poets Series (Book 16)Red Shifting is the first major collection in English of avant-garde St. Petersburg author Alexander Skidan’s poetry and essays, translated by award-winning poets and translators Genya Turovskaya and Eugene Ostashevsky.Born in 1965, Alexander Skidan lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. The author of several books of poetry and essays, he served on the selection committee for the Andrei Bely Prize. In 1997, Skidan’s book A Critical Mass was nominated for the Small Booker Prize. In 1998, he received the T...
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 | Wind of the Journey Publication Date: May 2000Irina Ratushinskaya will forever be known as the poet who was arrested for her writing, sentanced to a Soviet prison camp. And who continued in the face of persecution to write new poems. She wrote them on bars of soap, memorised them, and then washed away the 'evidence'. Irina is a recognised poet in both the International community and the United States. Many of Irina's poems have the earmarks of a well-seasoned traveller: and eagerness for adventure, melancholy good-byes, and a faith forged from life's journey. ...
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 | Russian Poetry for Children ...
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 | 20th Century Russian Poetry ...
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 | Unstable Equilibrium: Eight Russian Poetic Texts (Yale Russian and East European Publications No 9) (Russian Edition) ...
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 | Selected Poems Publication Date: December 31, 1988Elaine Feinstein is a poet of lyrical directness. That clear, passionate voice which she brought to her celebrated translations of Marina Tsvetayeva's poetry is her own. She writes about love, loss, jealousy, the fear of abandonment. Her powerful rhythms flow down the page, seeking to draw a coherent shape out of the inner uncertainties. She also writes with tenderness about an ageing father, a child on a swing, old films, a flowering cactus. Hers is a poetry which can contain and welcome. The rare landscape poems are always peopled, and the considerable na...
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 | Pushkin: The Man and His Age Publication Date: June 1995Traces the life of the revered Russian poet and national hero, who died of wounds from a duel at thirty-seven. ...
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 | Russian Poetry: Meter, Rhythm, and Rhyme Publication Date: June 16, 1986Russian Poetry offers the most complete description of Russian verse to date and provides a full introduction to Russian poetry based on current research. The work is geared toward both the lay reader and the specialist. ...
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 | Velimir Khlebnikov: A Critical Study (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) Publication Date: October 1, 1987| ISBN-10: 0521326702 | ISBN-13: 978-0521326704Khlebnikov is now recognized as a major Russian poet of the twentieth century, having for years been dismissed as an unintelligible verbal trickster. Cooke provides the first broad study in English of Khlebnikov's writings.The book is both informative and interpretative, and maps the contours of Khlebnikov's still largely uncharted poetic world. This exploration highlights the complex relationship between the poet and his public, examines Khlebnikov's preoccupations with the meaning of language and images of ...
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 | Roll Call of Mirrors: Selected Poems of Ivan V. Lalic (Wesleyan Poetry in Translation) Publication Date: June 1, 1988| Series: Wesleyan Poetry in Translation Ivan V. Lalic is one of the most important Serbian poets of the postwar generation. In Roll Call of Mirrors the translator Charles Simic, a native Yugoslavian, captures these poems in Lalic's own idiom, He retains their spare beauty, from the lyrical intensity of the early poems - by a poet "destined to burn" - to his later love of sonnets, to his most recent =, more meditative work on "what geometry dreams," and on the art of the poet (standing "before the mirror, fearless/ Of the returning image").Although Lalic is part...
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 | Yevtushenko Selected Poems ...
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 | Abram Tertz and the Poetics of Crime (Russian Literature and Thought Series) Publication Date: June 28, 1995| Series: Russian Literature and Thought Series Andrei Sinyavsky, a post-Stalin Russian writer and author of fiction, essays and criticism, also wrote under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. In this book Tertz's writings are examined by the author, discussing the literary scandals and then analyzing individual works. ...
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