Apollo in the Grass (eBook, ePUB)
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Hersteller: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Kushner, Aleksandr) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
A selection of poems from one of Russia´s greatest contemporary poets To renew the wish to live, I remember a waterfall. It clutches at stones, hangs like a wild grapevine In a blind homeland of stone letters, stone books— Here´s the one who takes life in totally, perishing every instant. —from "The Waterfall" For the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodksy, the work of Aleksandr Kushner was indispensable. "Kushner is one of the best Russian lyric poets of the twentieth century, and his name is destined to rank with those close to the heart of everyone whose mother tongue is Russian. This name is destined to outlive most of us and our children and grandchildren, as well as its bearer himself . . . Poetry is essentially the soul´s search for its release in language, and the work of Aleksandr Kushner is a case where the soul has obtained that release." Kushner´s poems are simultaneously deeply traditional in their mastery of form—as...
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