The two Richards / Vladimir Azarov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azarov, Vladimir, 1935- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Azarov, Vladimir, 1935---Fiction.

Azarov, Vladimir.

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction.

Fictional autobiographies.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

92 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Holstein, Ontario : Exile Editions, [2021]

Summary:

"A fictional memoir in poetic form about the story of a little boy, his kinship to a long-dead king, and the spiritual moment of a man in his golden years. Vladimir Azarov was a child of the Soviet Kazakhstan steppes. When his mother discovered that he had a slight curvature of the spine, with her own loving humor she nicknamed him Richie, after Richard III, the 14th-century English king, himself crooked, made famous as a monster by Shakespeare. At the same time, Azarov suffered a vision-altering wound to his eye that transformed the way he perceived the world, both real and imagined. The wound eventually healed and, as he grew up feeling a wry kinship to the king, his bent eye became that of a visionary, of an artist who was a convention-breaking architect, and finally as a poet, not writing in Russian, but in the King's English. When, not long ago, the actual bones of Richard III were found under a parking lot in Leicester town, Azarov - now in his 80s living in Toronto, and remembering his kinship by name - envisioned the archeological dig and re-interment of the bones, and he became one in his mind with the reputation-renovated and redeemed king. He became, at last, Richie-Richard III, being sung to on a rainy day, over a new grave, by medieval knights."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

First letter "R" in "Richard" appears as capitalized Cyrillic letter ya on source of information for title.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Azarov, Vladimir, 1935- Two Richards.

ISBN:

9781550969450

1550969455

OCLC:

1227272605

Publisher Number:

99989396525