By Daniel Weissbort, Valentina Polukhina
This anthology, the 1st of its style, goals to be entire. Valentina Polukhina surveys the complete scene, interpreting a few a thousand collections and manuscripts, and punctiliously investigating what's available at the vivid Russian literary net. The anthology levels from Moscow to Vladivostok. It comprises writers from former Soviet Republics reminiscent of the Ukraine. paintings by means of Russian ladies poets residing in a foreign country (in Britain, the us, Italy, France, Israel, and so forth) is additionally represented. targeting the center iteration, with significant figures like Svetlana Kekova, Vera Pavolova and Tatyana Shcherbina, the anthology contains paintings by way of the youngest iteration, born after 1970 and almost unknown open air Russia, in addition to senior poets like Bella Akhmadulina and Natalya Gorbanevskaya. specialists have integrated students, critics and editors, like Dmitry Kuzmin, who created the imperative poetry web site for more youthful poets, Vavilon. different experts in Russia comprise Olga Sedakova (Moscow nation University/MGU), Irina Kovaleva (MGU), and Lyudmila Zbuova (St. Petersburg University). Translators contain such unusual English poets as Elaine Feinstein, Ruth Fainlight, Maura Dooley and Carol Rumens, in addition to Russianists and students in Britain and the us comparable to Peter France (Edinburgh), Catriona Kelly (Oxford), Robert Reid (Keele) and Stephanie Sandler (Harvard). 'Russian poetry is in a fit kingdom because it leaves the glaciers of Communism for the steamy jungle of western hedonism,' D.M. Thomas declared in Poetry London. The anthology presents a number of insights into post-Soviet fact, from the viewpoint of girls writers who have been much less compromised through the Soviet approach, supplying extra resistance to the pressures of political conformism.
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A sí termina en paz esta carrera del vegetal armado que se llama alcachofa, luego escama por escama desvestim os la delicia y com em os la pacífica pasta de su corazón verde. ODA A LAS A M ÉRICAS Am éricas purísimas, tierras que los océanos guardaron intactas y purpúreas, siglos de colmenares silenciosos, pirám ides, vasijas, Ode to the Americas U nintim idated, she selects our artichoke, exam ines it, holds it to the light as i f it w ere an egg; she buys it, she drops it in a shopping bag that holds a pair o f shoes, a cabbage head, and one bottle o f vinegar.
V iv id flight! L ivin g beauty! M ultitude o f song! B irds o f C hile, hurricanes, carnivorous birdships or sweet, small creatures o f flow er and grape, yo u r nests structure the fragrant unity o f the land: you r w in gin g lives com pose the nation o f the sky and sing to us, you r flight unites m y cou ntry’s stars. 45 Oda al Caldillo de Congrio ODA AL CALDILLO DE CO NGRIO En el mar torm entoso de Chile vive el rosado congrio, gigante anguila de nevada carne. Y en las ollas chilenas, en la costa, nació el caldillo grávido y suculento, provechoso.
A hora recoges ajos, acaricia prim ero ese m arfil precioso, huele su fragancia iracunda, entonces deja el ajo picado caer con la cebolla y el tomate Ode to Conger Chowder ODE TO C O N G ER CHOW DER In the storm -tossed Chilean sea lives the rosy conger, giant eel o f sn o w y flesh. A nd in Chilean stew pots, along the coast, w as born the chowder, thick and succulent, a boon to man. Y o u bring the conger, skinned, to the kitchen (its m ottled skin slips o ff like a glove, leaving the grape o f the sea exposed to the w orld), naked, the tender eel glistens, prepared to serve our appetites.