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Is it in our genome
That something always goes wrong?
We were building the Third Rome –
We built a Second Pyongyang.
We moved forward and never strayed,
We were proudly standing guard.
We were marching to a parade
But ended up at a graveyard.
We’re scratching our heads – oh well,
That’s the fate into which we were born…
And what about Gabriel?
He’s gonna blow his horn.
The Original
Что-то не то творим –
В схеме, видать, изъян.
Строили Третий Рим –
Вышел второй Пхеньян.
Дружно смыкали ряд.
Высились в полный рост.
Двигались на парад –
Прибыли на погост.
Морщим теперь чело.
Думаем: не судьба…
А Гавриил чего?
Дело его – труба.
Born on May 25, 1961, in Omsk. Studied acting, worked in theaters in Khabarovsk and Chelyabinsk. In 2005, Sergey moved to Moscow. He is well known as a scriptwriter and playwright. His plays are produced in Moscow’s leading theaters. He has been writing poetry since the age of 15.
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 a poem by Stepanova won the Compass Award competition.
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Every character in these twenty-two interlinked stories is an immigrant from a place real or imaginary. (Magic realism/immigrant fiction.)
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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!
