Everything As In a Good Old-Fashioned Novel — Andrey Dementyev To Maya Lugovskaya Translated by Simon Franklin Everything as in a good old-fashioned novel. Colonnaded house, light from a window. Black limes in blue haze. Elegaic quietude. Rustle of crows in drenched clumps of trees. Leaves float quietly in a pond. What the hell; I […]
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Firing Back . . . — Aleksandr Gangnus Translated by Bradley Jordan Firing back at my heavy heart, I longed to run, run far away, but the stars are too high, too far apart, and for the stars there’s a lot to pay. *** This poem is carved on Gangnus’ headstone in Vagankovksy Cemetery, […]
These are things I’ve been doing that help me. Feel free to use, adapt to your own situation, or ignore if they’re not helpful. I’ll be posting these intermittently, as I manage to write them up. They’ll be tagged “Quarantine Care”, if you want to use the tag search to find them instead of scrolling. […]
Thanks to the wonderfully literate Artemis, whose library is apparently infinite, I have discovered several new poets, including Pavel Antokolsky and Georgy Ivanov. As many of the poets she features on her blog are not American, finding their works translated into English has been challenging. (While I have some abilities with French and Italian, that’s […]
