Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today

Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today

by Polina Barskova (Editor)
Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today

Verses on the Vanguard: Russian Poetry Today

by Polina Barskova (Editor)

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Overview

Six of the most remarkable contemporary Russian poets present their groundbreaking verse in a bilingual poetry collection published in partnership with PEN America’s Writers in Dialogue project. 

 In 2020, as international travel skidded to a halt, PEN America’s Writers in Dialogue project—which opens the exhilarating world of contemporary Russian poetry to American readers by bridging the American and Russian literary communities—went remote, using online connection to foster collaborations between daring emerging or undertranslated poetic voices and dexterous translators. 

In this remarkable volume, the Russian poets and American translators who were paired for this initiative present their collaborative work in a bilingual format, along with conversations about the pleasures, challenges, and intimacies of translation. English-reading audiences will have an opportunity to experience the boldness and range, stylistic and thematic, of Russia’s vital poetry scene. Featuring Ainsley Morse, Maria Galina, Catherine Ciepiela, Aleksandra Tsibulia, Anna Halberstadt, Oksana Vasyakina, Elina Alter, Ivan Sokolov, Kevin M.F. Platt, Ekaterina Simonova, Valeriya Yermishova, and Nikita Sungatov.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646051625
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 02/08/2022
Pages: 198
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Polina Barskova 7

Poems Maria Galina 17

I was at the ends of the earth 19

from the poem "Everything about Liza" 21

Little Person 27

Autumn at the Grand Fountain 29

from Four Seasoned Years of Time 39

Maria Galina and Ainsley Morse Talk Translation 41

Poems Aleksandra Tsibulia 47

There's time for peace… 49

It's maybe the first warm evening 51

From the Ferris wheel… 53

Distances continually being replaced 55

For a couple of minutes 57

It's well known that squirrels… 59

The balconies with balusters… 61

Gone from the field… 63

Catherine Ciepiela & Aleksandra Tsibulia, in Conversation 65

Poems Oksana Vasyakina 69

Theory of Glare 71

Opera-Ballet Homophobia 83

Anna Halberstadt on Translating Oksana Vasyakina's Poetry 93

Poems Ivan Sokolov 95

Incisors , hold it , the median… 97

O R T 102

Elina Alter on Translating Ivan Sokolou 105

Poems Ekaterina Simonova 109

Next to her body… 111

They gave me the next… 115

Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov was an asshole. 119

Women who shave their legs… 123

from the cycle "Summer" 129

Girls 137

Kevin M. F. Piatt on Translating Ekaterina Simonova 151

Poems Nikita Sungatov 153

[a modern poem] 155

Children's Poem 175

After Vladislav Khodasevich 179

Valeriya Yermishova on Translating Nikita Sungatov 185

Afterword Polina Sadovskaya 189

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