Mirror Sand: An Anthology of Russian Short Poems in English Translation电子书

MIRROR SAND

An Anthology of Russian Short Poems in English Translation

Translated by Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Gennady Aigi

The Silence of Snow

Hush

The Rain

Snowstorm in My Window

(For V.Y.)

Our Way

Ivan Akhmetiev

The Challenge

A Pause

Writing

Waiting

Observation

Margarita Al

Desire

Wings

The Poet

The Beast Hasn’t Been Born Yet – but It Already is a Beast

A Porcelain Morning

Maria Alekhina

Pushkin Square

The Room

Prescience

Time

Simple Life

Gennady Alexeyev

Every Morning

My Funeral

Flowers

A Poem About the Disadvantages of Being Human

What I Want

Vladimir Aristov

From “Accidentally Met in Moscow”

(Yauza Gates, 26 September, 12.48pm)

The Surface of the Chinese Mirror

The Dragon

For A.U.

Infernal Repetitions

Sergey Biryukov

Everything Changes

Who’s Good?

Beastmen

The Treble Clef

News of Petrarch and Laura

Vladimir Burich

At Night I Looked into my Room Through the Window

Half Past Seventies

What Will Remain

Germany, 1984

On the Boulevard

Vladimir Earle

Autumn

The Barrier of Sleep

Opinions

Eurydice

Under Water

Mikhail Finerman

Touching

Yearning

Name

Winter

To Find Yourself

Ruslan Galimov

Forecast

In General, She Was Right

Agreeability

What Can Man Think About?

Today

Tatyana Grauz

Morning Dream

July’s Light

Butterfly

Soft Sun

April-Dove

Dmitry Grigoriev

Night

Words

Shades of Night

Not Rubbish

Fishermen

Elena Katsuba

Candle

Butterfly and the Rain

An Apocryphal Story

There’s Nothing Replaceable in the Dump!

The Rose Garden

Konstantin Kedrov

Hieroglyph for God

Aero Era

Keel

Reed Pipe

Wings

Igor Kholin

Cramer’s Camera

Poem for Edmund Iodkovsky

From “The War River”

Common Grave

Truths

Viktor Krivulin

Lynx

While We Invented Paradise

Books and Men

Over the Granite Factory

The End

Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Chamber Music

Bunin: Portrait with the Person Missing

Judas

The Invisible Cinema

The Shooting Down of MH17

Alexander Makarov-Krotkov

For K.

On the Quays

The Doggy

Stockholm

(for Hans Bjorkegren)

A Soviet Reader’s Remark on James Joyce

Arvo Mets

The Poet

Absentee

Resemblance

Penniless Man

Names

Yuri Milorava

Untitled 1

Untitled 2

Untitled 3

Untitled 4

Untitled 5

Vsevolod Nekrasov

Freedom

Untitled 1

Untitled 2

Pride

Love

Rea Nikonova

Simple

The World of Idiots

Anti-Novella

Foretaste

Russia

Genrikh Sapgir

Grove

New in Town

Business Trip

A Proverb

Sounds of Silence

Ian Satunovsky

Changing the Bulb

If They So Desire

Almost by Mistake

Writing

A Bloody Yid

Asya Shneiderman

Poetry

The Tower

The City

Poem for Lena Zhukova

Especially in this Kind of World

Mikhail Sokovnin

Fantasy

Woodsman

For N. S. G.

Samovar

A Northern Song

Untitled

Sergey Stratanovsky

In the Nabokov Hotel

A Shark as a Cabinet of Curiosities

Leviathan

The Library Tower

An Apocryphal Story

Arkady Tyurin

Inseparability

It Is Careless of You …

Time and the River

She

Garden

Alina Vitukhnovskaya

By Touch

Your Chaos

Zero

Pavlov’s Dog

Eva Browning

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