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From “Eastern Brushes” album
“We are back to Plato’s Cave. The world is reduced to shadows & lights dancing upon the walls. The walls are real, they flicker, omnipresent. They are the screens of our tablets, computers, and smartphones. I’ve been drawing and scribbling on them with my fingers since 2012. I feel both Paleolithic and contemporary. I am a new Cave Artist. Huge swathes of our cultural heritage are collapsing and disappearing. We have lost and forgotten so much, but we are reminded of our losses and memories. The walls are closing in on us, they are too close, we cannot see well. It’s all here, on these pages, including the shards of visual codes that survived but became incomprehensible. The puzzle’s changed rapidly, we had to keep up, yet the reflections rushed on. The walls are getting smarter, they have begun to absorb us, perhaps one day we will merge. Conceivably they will reflect us better than we have ever reflected on ourselves. The following works are still a record of the human condition.”
— Igor Satanovsky
Igor Satanovsky (b. 1969 in Kiev) is a visual artist, poet, editor, translator, curator, and award–winning book designer. He had solo art exhibits at the Zverevsky Center of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2019) and Outpost Gallery II in NYC (2017); and collaborated with Boris Lurie Art Foundation on organizing and curating various International art projects since 2010, including Boris Lurie’s retrospectives at Berlin Jewish Museum (2016) and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (2019). Igor is Chief Editor of Novaya Kozha, a Russian-language almanac of arts and letters, and a recipient of the 2021 David Burliuk Prize (Otmetina) for experimental poetry. He authored seven collections of poetry and two albums of graphics. He is a member of the editorial boards of A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (Richard Kostelanetz, various editions, USA/UK, 1999–2019) and Cultural Dictionary of the 21st Century (Moscow, 2020).
Launched in 2012, “Four Centuries” is an international electronic magazine of Russian poetry in translation.
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) was one of the most prolific Russian writers of the twentieth century. Babi Yar and Other Poems, translated by Anna Krushelnitskaya, is a representative selection of Ehrenburg’s poetry, available in English for the first time.
Young readers will love this delightful work of children’s verse by poet William Conelly, accompanied by Nadia Kossman’s imaginative, evocative illustrations.
A book of poems by Maria Galina, put together and completed exactly one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is Galina’s seventh book of poems. With translations by Anna Halberstadt and Ainsley Morse.
The first bilingual (Russian-English) collection of poems by Aleksandr Kabanov, one of Ukraine’s major poets, “Elements for God” includes poems that predicted – and now chronicle – Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
A book of poems by Yulia Fridman.
“I have been reading Yulia Fridman’s poems for a long time and have admired them for a long time.” (Vladimir Bogomyakov, poet)
