One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is most popular for, is his mastery of the love poem, a genre which he perfected like few others before or after him. This volume contains a selection of his most famous and enduring verse explorations of love, such as 'I Loved You', 'Night' and 'I Well Recall a Wondrous Meeting', pieces which are crowning achievements of the European canon and still have the same timele...
Collected Poems 1983-2010 (Collected Poems 1983-2010, #2)
by Alexander Shaumyan
This is a book of border crossings, with Vladimir Azarov on the move, exploring inner architectures of luminous vibrancy: the madness of a king who wants to be a swan, Michaelangelo chiselling a heart that beats into his David, Tsar Peter with his three pet dwarfs acting as generals in the army, Vera Zasulich who became the world's first woman terrorist, Robinson Crusoe hunting for the footprints of Friday, Michael Jackson pretending he is Marcel Marceau as he woos Marlene Dietrich in Paris, and...
Relocations (In the Grip of Strange Thoughts)
by Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, and Maria Stepanova
Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, and Maria Stepanova all were born in the early to mid-1970s and came of age during perestroika. They are old enough to have visceral memories of Soviet life but young enough to move adeptly with the new influences, new media and new life choices introduced in the post-Soviet era. In distinct ways all three are engaged in the project of renovating Russia's great modernist tradition for a radically different historical situation. They write poems of imaginative darin...
James McGavran's new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist's voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Soviet regime, and because of his posthumous enshrinement by Stalin as "the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch," Mayakovsky has most often been interpreted-and translated-within a political context. McGavran's translations reveal a more nuanced poet who possessed a passion for word creation and l...
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems. Both scholars and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of his poetics, as Probstein situates each poem in its historical and literary context. The English translations presented here are so dee...
Here are five of Alexander Pushkin's finest narrative poems. "The Gypsies" tells the anti-Romantic tale of an effete city-dweller whose search for "unspoiled" values among a band of gypsies ends in tragedy. "The Bridegroom" is a whodunnit filled with sexual dread and subconscious terror. "Count Nulin," a deliciously comic tale of country life. "The Tale of the Dead Princess" is Pushkin's version of the Snow White story while the eerie "Tale of the Golden Cockerel" is inspired by his bitter exper...