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Muddy River

Selected Poems

Translated by J Kates

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ISBN: 978 1 847772 53 4
Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Russian, Translation
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Published: April 2016
216 x 138 x 5 mm
128 pages
Publisher: Carcanet Press

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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.

Sergey Stratanovsky

Sergey �Stratanovsky was born in 1944 in Leningrad and educated in the department of Russian philology at Leningrad University. He began to write poetry in 1968, around the time of the Prague Spring and his graduation, though his early work subsisted in a culture of Soviet Union censorship. During this period ... read more

J Kates

J. Kates is a poet, literary translator and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation for the Selected Poems ... read more

'It is very difficult in a few words to point to an unprecedented quality in Stratanovskyâs 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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Muddy River Selected Poems Sergey Stratanovsky Translated by J Kates RRP: GBP 12.99 Discount: 10% You Save: GBP 1.30 Price: GBP 11.69 Available This title is available for academic inspection (paperback only). Paperback ISBN: 978 1 847772 53 4 Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Russian, Translation Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: April 2016 216 x 138 x 5 mm 128 pages Publisher: Carcanet Press Description Excerpt Author Reviews 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. Sergey Stratanovsky Sergey �Stratanovsky was born in 1944 in Leningrad and educated in the department of Russian philology at Leningrad University. He began to write poetry in 1968, around the time of the Prague Spring and his graduation, though his early work subsisted in a culture of Soviet Union censorship. During this period ... read more J Kates J. Kates is a poet, literary translator and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation for the Selected Poems ... read more 'It is very difficult in a few words to point to an unprecedented quality in Stratanovskyâs 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	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! Anvil Press Poetry Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Little Island Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog PN Review 256: Michael Schmidt read more Colm Tibn: NPVIII: Meet the Contributor read more New Poetries VIII: Judith Willson on Rebecca Hurst read more Apocalypse: James Keery read more Rebecca Hurst: NPVIII: Meet the Contributor read more New Poetries VIII: Joey Connolly on Hal Coase read more
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