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ask not
the proof is in the puting
it has us bloating
scrooching
puking
*
иного нет
у нас путит
нас крючит
пучит
и мутит
* * *
Arise, great motherland, and fight!
Your noble rage must swell
Against the heinous fascist blight,
Against your own damn self.
*
Вставай, страна огромная,
Вставай на смертный бой
С фашистской силой тёмною,
С самою, блядь, собой.
* * *
I was a genius, but we can’t
Stagnate: a short time later
I’m a Russian occupant
And also Russia’s traitor.
*
Был я гений и талант
Эти вехи пройдены
Стал российский оккупант
И предатель Родины
* * *
“Yes, we’ve noticed, sure, we know:
Something dreadful has occurred.”
“Why, then, haven’t you said a word?”
“It just wasn’t apropos.”
*
— Мы, конечно, примечали:
Что-то страшное стряслось.
— Ну а что же вы молчали?
— Как-то к слову не пришлось.
* * *
this movie
holds no interest for me
anymore
why the hell
do i have
to keep watching
*
это кино
мне больше
не интересно
ну почему
я должен
его смотреть
* * *
there is
no covid
in existence
until
you
start
dying
from it
likewise
there are
no
bombardments
actually there is
no death at all
*
никакого
ковида
не существует
пока
ты
сам
от него
не умираешь
точно так же
не существует
никаких
бомбардировок
и вообще
смерти нет
Herman Lukomnikov was born in 1962 in Baku and has lived in Moscow since 1975. Since 1990, he has performed texts and performances. His first published poems appeared in “The Humanitarian Fund” newspaper. He participated in festivals and had palindrome pieces published in
anthologies. He was the winner of the Russian-Ukrainian Poetry Slam in Lviv (2007) and the All-Russian Slam in Voronezh (2014) and vice-champion of the World Slam in Paris (2015). He played the Fool in D. Krymov’s play “Boris” based on Pushkin’s “Boris Godunov”. He has authored 19 published books of poetry. His poems were also published in “Samizdat Veka” (an anthology), “Poems of the Last Time” (an anthology), as well as in major Russian magazines such as “Znamya,” “Volga,” “Ogonyok,” “New Literary Review,” “Vozdukh,” “Solo,” etc. His poems have been translated into 14 languages.
Dmitri Manin is a physicist, programmer, and translator of poetry. His translations from English and French into Russian have appeared in several book collections. His latest work is a complete translation of Ted Hughes’ “Crow” (Jaromír Hladík Press, 2020) and Allen Ginsberg’s “The Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems” (Podpisnie Izdaniya, 2021). Dmitri’s Russian-to-English translations have been published in journals (Cardinal Points, Delos, The Café Review, Metamorphoses, etc) and in Maria Stepanova’s “The Voice Over” (CUP, 2021). In 2017, his translation of Stepanova’s poem won the Compass Award competition. “Columns,” his new book of translations of Nikolai Zabolotsky’s poems, was published by Arc Publications in 2023 (https://eastwestliteraryforum.com/books/nikolai-zabolotsky-columns-poems).
A new collection of poems by Ian Probstein. (In Russian)
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.
