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Muddy RiverSelected PoemsSergey StratanovskyTranslated by J Kates
Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Russian, Translation
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (128 pages) (Pub. Apr 2016) 9781847772534 Out of Stock
The Russian Russophobe rushes to the river – to drown
(‘Fed up with living in this eternal vile squalor!’) But reconsiders: there is a choice – to emigrate, Or (variation on a theme): to express in hellishly Contemptuous verse his heartfelt, furious heat… From Russophobia
Sergey Stratanovsky’s Muddy River is the first comprehensive English-language selection of a contemporary existentialist Russian master. Taken together, the poems express the full range of Stratanovsky’s verse, drawing on seven collections that represent half a century of writing. Muddy River is the essential Anglophone introduction to Stratanovsky’s oeuvre, its now satirical, now psalmic, ever-searching poetics.
'€˜It is very difficult in a few words to point to an unprecedented quality in Stratanovsky’s work. It seems to me that his particularity is not even in how it is expressed, but from where it is articulated, there where sound has its source. From somewhere terribly deep: in a time of faith and magic, where and when element and consciousness are not divided and continue to constitute a meaningful whole.'
Mikhail Aizenberg 'He does not paint in half-tones. The clash of clear, bright colors and sharp lines - this is his poetry.' Nikita Eliseev, Russian literary critic 'This important collection by a meditative poet who is in, but not of, the world he has chronicled for almost half a century.' Boris Dralyuk, TLS |
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