Menu
Menu
Menu
* * *
Покоя нет ни с ней, ни без неё,
Издёрганная суть противоречий
Разлука так мучительна как встреча,
И в прошлом безмятежное спаньё.
И просыпаюсь я от губ тепла,
И всюду чувствую тебя и слышу,
И делаю фантазией бесстыжей,
И строчками, которым нет числа.
Но ты всё ускользаешь, как недуг,
Бегущий от попыток излеченья,
Надеждою, хрустящей как печенье,
Летишь под ноги из горячих рук.
Но ты меня сжигаешь, как напалм
Вьетнамскую несчастную деревню,
А я забрёл в усталость, как в харчевню,
И из неё смотрю, как строят храм.
~ ~ ~
No peace for me, not with her, nor without her
It’s an old paradox, it’s vexed and here is why:
Leaving her is as painful as our meeting
And in the past are sleep and quiet nights.
Each morning your warm lips kiss me awake,
I feel you and I hear you everywhere,
And in my fantasy you have as little shame
As in the endless lines that you inspire.
But then you keep escaping like a malady
That can evade all our attempts to cure it.
A sliver of hope as brittle as a wafer,
You slip my feverish hands, fall by my feet.
And you burn me up as Napalm burned
That war-doomed village back in Vietnam
I seek relief in the exhaustion that’s my tavern
And from that place I watch a temple being built.
Translated by Josephine von Zitzewitz
Andrey Selin was born in Kherson, in 1964. He graduated from the Music Conservatory in Odessa. He works at the Odessa Opera Theater and at the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra as a concertmaster of double basses. He is the author of a book of poems Windows, and his poems are regularly published in Russian-language periodicals and on the Internet.
Josephine von Zitzewitz is a scholar of Russian literature and translator specializing in Russian poetry. After working at the Universities of Oxford, Bristol, and Cambridge (UK) she is presently Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at UIT The Arctic University of Norway.
A book of wartime poems by Alexandr Kabanov, one of Ukraine’s major poets, fighting for the independence of his country by means at his disposal – words and rhymes.
Every character in these twenty-two interlinked stories is an immigrant from a place real or imaginary. (Magic realism/immigrant fiction.)
In this collection, Andrey Kneller has woven together his own poems with his translations of one of the most recognized and celebrated contemporary Russian poets, Vera Pavlova.
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.
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.
