Gossip & Metaphysics

Russian Modernist Poems & Prose

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Katie Farris

▪Ilya Kaminsky

▪Valzhyna Mort

Verlag:

Tupelo Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: G7PLVKR

EAN: 9781936797479

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Zustellung: Mi, 15.07.2026

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Beschreibung

There has been no anthology in English dedicated to the poetics of the great generation of Russian modernists. For a group of poets so widely admired, relatively little seems known about their philosophy of poetry and their poetic influences, and although there is tremendous aesthetic diversity in this group, they have more in common than many readers assume. Russian poetry was a small world, made even smaller by the arrests, disappearances, pogroms, famines, assassinations, and political conflagration of the revolutionary era, and literary differences were often overcome by a mutual sense of historic cataclysm. This anthology's structure is like textile, with many common threads intertwining, doubling back, sometimes unraveling-creating a matrix of poetic conversation: Mayakovsky on Khlebnikov, Pasternak on Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva on Pasternak, Brodsky on Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova on Mandelstam. Shared themes range from expected (the word) to serendipitous (the ocean). Above all these poets are obsessed with proximity-to God, to nature and place, to poetic predecessors, to language (their own and others), and always, forever, to the inexpressible.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Katie Farris
Ilya Kaminsky
Valzhyna Mort

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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