A million premonitions : poems / by Viktor Sosnora ; translated from the Russian by Dinara Georgeoliani & Mark Halperin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sosnora, Viktor.

Language:

English

Russian

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

135 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Zephyr Press, [2004]

Summary:

Reaching back as far as medieval Rus and as far forward as metrical and linguistic innovation permit, Sosnora has written with a voice unique and wideranging. Historical allusion, conscious anachronism, humor, and intensity of word play dominate by turns his range of verse.

Viktor Sosnora was born in 1936 in the Crimea. He is known as one of the most consistently experimental of Russian poets, and one of the foremost translators, into Russian, of Catullus, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and Allen Ginsberg.

Mark Halperin teaches at Central Washington University. His latest book of poems, "The Measure of Islands," was published by Wesleyan.

Dinara Georgeoliani is a linguist and Assistant Professor of Russian at Central Washington University.

Contents:

Boyan's Gusli 2

Kalika 6

Appeal 10

Seventeen Years Later 12

"You're leaving..." 16

"Farewell Paris..." 18

Letter 20

The Summer Garden by Day 22

"It's all over, my soul so quiet..." 24

Poet 26

Crow 28

When There Is No Moon 30

"In Childhood..." 32

House of Hopes 34

"I had a Magnificent Friend..." 38

Grasshopper 42

September 46

Leaving the Seaside 66

Letters from the Forest 68

A Night About You 84

Maiden-Fish 86

My Life 90

The Soldiers are Leaving 94

In February 102

"I don't want to be on the map of a starry night..." 108

"Eros wouldn't rouse..." 112

Day of Hopes 114

August 118.

Notes:

Parallel text in Russian and English ; translations from Russian.

ISBN:

0939010763

OCLC:

56051480