
Mirror Sand
An Anthology of Russian Short Poems in English Translation
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About this book
Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this bilingual anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. It showcases thirty poets from Russia, and displays a variety of works by authors who all come from different backgrounds.
Some of them are well-known not only locally but also internationally due to festival appearances and translations into European languages; among them are Gennady Aigi, Gennady Alexeyev, Vladimir Aristov, Sergey Biryukov, Konstantin Kedrov, Igor Kholin, Viktor Krivulin, Vsevolod Nekrasov, Genrikh Sapgir, and Sergey Stratanovsky.
The next Russian poetic generation also features prominently in the collection. Such poets as Tatyana Grauz, Dmitri Grigoriev, Alexander Makarov-Krotkov, Yuri Milorava, Asya Shneiderman and Alina Vitukhnovskaya are the ones Russians like to read today.
This anthology shows Russia looking back at itself, and reveals the post-World-War Russian reality from the perspective of some of the best Russian creative minds. Here we find a poetry of dissent and of quiet observation, of fierce emotions, and of deep inner thoughts.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Gennady Aigi
- The Silence of Snow
- Hush
- The Rain
- Snowstorm in My Window
- Our Way
- Ivan Akhmetiev
- The Challenge
- A Pause
- Writing
- Waiting
- Observation
- Margarita Al
- Desire
- Wings
- The Poet
- The Beast Hasn’t Been Born Yet – but It Already is a Beast
- A Porcelain Morning
- Maria Alekhina
- Pushkin Square
- The Room
- Prescience
- Time
- Simple Life
- Gennady Alexeyev
- Every Morning
- My Funeral
- Flowers
- A Poem About the Disadvantages of Being Human
- What I Want
- Vladimir Aristov
- From “Accidentally Met in Moscow”
- The Surface of the Chinese Mirror
- The Dragon
- For A.U.
- Infernal Repetitions
- Sergey Biryukov
- Everything Changes
- Who’s Good?
- Beastmen
- The Treble Clef
- News of Petrarch and Laura
- Vladimir Burich
- At Night I Looked into my Room Through the Window
- Half Past Seventies
- What Will Remain
- Germany, 1984
- On the Boulevard
- Vladimir Earle
- Autumn
- The Barrier of Sleep
- Opinions
- Eurydice
- Under Water
- Mikhail Finerman
- Touching
- Yearning
- Name
- Winter
- To Find Yourself
- Ruslan Galimov
- Forecast
- In General, She Was Right
- Agreeability
- What Can Man Think About?
- Today
- Tatyana Grauz
- Morning Dream
- July’s Light
- Butterfly
- Soft Sun
- April-Dove
- Dmitry Grigoriev
- Night
- Words
- Shades of Night
- Not Rubbish
- Fishermen
- Elena Katsuba
- Candle
- Butterfly and the Rain
- An Apocryphal Story
- There’s Nothing Replaceable in the Dump!
- The Rose Garden
- Konstantin Kedrov
- Hieroglyph for God
- Aero Era
- Keel
- Reed Pipe
- Wings
- Igor Kholin
- Cramer’s Camera
- Poem for Edmund Iodkovsky
- From “The War River”
- Common Grave
- Truths
- Viktor Krivulin
- Lynx
- While We Invented Paradise
- Books and Men
- Over the Granite Factory
- The End
- Anatoly Kudryavitsky
- Chamber Music
- Bunin: Portrait with the Person Missing
- Judas
- The Invisible Cinema
- The Shooting Down of MH17
- Alexander Makarov-Krotkov
- For K.
- On the Quays
- The Doggy
- Stockholm
- A Soviet Reader’s Remark on James Joyce
- Arvo Mets
- The Poet
- Absentee
- Resemblance
- Penniless Man
- Names
- Yuri Milorava
- Untitled 1
- Untitled 2
- Untitled 3
- Untitled 4
- Untitled 5
- Vsevolod Nekrasov
- Freedom
- Untitled 1
- Untitled 2
- Pride
- Love
- Rea Nikonova
- Simple
- The World of Idiots
- Anti-Novella
- Foretaste
- Russia
- Genrikh Sapgir
- Grove
- New in Town
- Business Trip
- A Proverb
- Sounds of Silence
- Ian Satunovsky
- Changing the Bulb
- If They So Desire
- Almost by Mistake
- Writing
- A Bloody Yid
- Asya Shneiderman
- Poetry
- The Tower
- The City
- Poem for Lena Zhukova
- Especially in this Kind of World
- Mikhail Sokovnin
- Fantasy
- Woodsman
- Samovar
- A Northern Song
- Untitled
- Sergey Stratanovsky
- In the Nabokov Hotel
- A Shark as a Cabinet of Curiosities
- Leviathan
- The Library Tower
- An Apocryphal Story
- Arkady Tyurin
- Inseparability
- It Is Careless of You …
- Time and the River
- She
- Garden
- Alina Vitukhnovskaya
- By Touch
- Your Chaos
- Zero
- Pavlov’s Dog
- Eva Browning
- About the translator
- Thank you for purchasing this book
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