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Sometimes immigrants must share their experiences with those who are fortunate enough to reside in their countries of birth. Not just to take the load off their shoulders, but to make others aware of the plight of hundreds of millions who leave their countries annually worldwide. Iām one of those immigrants. In this collection of twenty-one stories, I share my own experience and the experience of others like me through the lives of my composite protagonists.
These English poems by Gari have the same energy and elegance as his Russian poems, and they are enriched by his multilayered, polyphonic use of the English language to express thoughts and feelings with sophistication and humor.
This new edition by Shearsman Press (UK) contains translations of Marina Tsvetaeva’s narrative poems (ŠæŠ¾ŃŠ¼Ń). They can be seen as markers of various stages in her poetic development, ranging from the early, folk-accented On a Red SteedĀ to the lyrical-confessionalĀ Poem of the Mountain and Poem of the EndĀ to the more metaphysical later poems,Ā An Attempt at a Room,Ā Poem of the Mountain, a beautiful requiem for Rainer Maria Rilke,Ā New Yearās Greetings, andĀ Poem of the Air, a stirring celebration of Lindberghās transatlantic flight and the quest for the soulās freedom. These translations were first published by Ardis in 1998 and reprinted by Overlook in 2004 and 2009. The current edtion was published by Shearsman Press (UK) in 2021.
Sergey Gandlevsky’s 2002 novelĀ Illegible has a double-time focus, centering on the immediate experiences of Lev Krivorotov, a twenty-year-old poet living in Moscow in the 1970s, as well as his retrospective meditations thirty years later after most of his hopes have foundered.
