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Alexey Karakovski is a poet, literary translator, songwriter and musician who lives in the vicinity of Moscow, Russia. He is the creator, and, since 2000, the editor-in-chief of “Tochka.Zreniya” (“View.Point”), an online Russian-language literary journal (https://litpoint.press). Karakovski is the lead singer of the rock group “Incident.” He also participates in the musical projects “False Testimony,” “Mandelstam’s Garden,” “Curaçao,” and others. He performs his songs in Russian, English and German; some texts have also been translated into French, Spanish, Kazakh and Hebrew. He recorded two dozen music albums. Karakovski is the author of a dozen books (prose, poetry, non-fiction), a number of publications in literary magazines, such as “Khreshchatyk,” “Day and Night,” etc, and art-samizdat, such as “Smuggling” and “Underground Pantheon.” He is known for his translations into Russian of beatnik poets, European poets of the Second World War, and of folk and rock songs.
This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam’s most beloved and haunting poems.
Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union—but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.
Every character in these twenty-two interlinked stories is an immigrant from a place real or imaginary. (Magic realism/immigrant fiction.)
A book of poems in Russian by Victor Enyutin (San Francisco, 1983). Victor Enyutin is a Russian writer, poet, and sociologist who emigrated to the US from the Soviet Union in 1975.
This collection of personal essays by a bi-national Russian/U.S. author offers glimpses into many things Soviet and post-Soviet: the sacred, the profane, the mundane, the little-discussed and the often-overlooked. What was a Soviet school dance like? Did communists go to church? Did communists listen to Donna Summer? If you want to find out, read on!
