The score of the game / Tatiana Shcherbina ; translated from the Russian by J. Kates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shcherbina, Tatʹi︠a︡na.

Contributor:

Kates, J.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Poems. English and Russian. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shcherbina, Tatʹi︠a︡na--Translations into English.

Shcherbina, Tatʹi︠a︡na.

Shcherbina, Tatʹi͡ana.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xvi, 123 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Zephyr Press, [2003]

Language Note:

Parallel text in Russian and English, or French and English.

Summary:

Tatiana Shcherbina emerged in the early 1980s as a spokesperson for the new, independent Moscow culture. Her work was first published in the official press of the Soviet Union in 1986, and five volumes of her poetry were published in samizdat prior to 1990. Her poetry is now widely published in both established and experimental journals at home and abroad, and has been translated into Dutch, German, French, and English. Shcherbina's poetry blends the personal with the political, and the source for her material is pulled from classical literature, as well as French and German cultural influences.

Contents:

Null Null

Concerning the Limits 4

The Stepmother 6

Null Null 10

Women's Theatre 20

Eros Poesis 26

Unchopinesque Etude 30

My ideological antagonist 32

It was so nauseatingly sick, I broke whatever I could 34

No need for bullets, the heart explodes on its own 36

Frequent, willing laundering has leached all color 38

Zoomorphic Elegy 40

Always summer in July, in July it's always green 44

Easter Koan 46

Strawberry Froth 50

Pre(ter) 54

Sappho and Alcaeus 58

The Thousandth Anniversary of the Christianization of Rus 60

Letter to a Contemporary 62

No Smoking! 66

I don't know, I just don't know about 70

Not heads not tails

this means right on edge 72

Christmas Koan 74

Selected Poems

Icarus 80

The Mermaid 82

Tallus 84

Still-Life 86

What does an Apache feel in the other world 88

The Poet and The Tsar 90

Video 94

The whole city seductively lit up 96

And to eat fish, spit out the bones

there's happiness for you 98

Ballad of the Schliersee 100

Poetry, farewell, farewell 102

I am slain by the impotence 104

They say if longing gnaws at you, change 106

Hope is not the very last to die 108

Life Without You 110

The Marathon 112

Black Orchid 114

No News 116

I who go away am not I who draw near 118

Circulatory Traffic 120.

ISBN:

0939010739

OCLC:

52966186