All the World on a Page : A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahn, Andrew--4aut

Contributor:

Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich)

Language:

English

Russian

Genre:

Poetry.

Literary criticism.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (681 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"There was no shortage of great Russian prose written during the twentieth century, much of it inevitably representing a period of revolution, war, penal servitude, and political collapse; but the distinction and prestige of poetry never waned in Russia, a country in which poetry has been regarded as the premier source of creative inventiveness and psychological and emotional truth. Despite the huge challenges posed by the Soviet system, poetry found a route to talk about the interior life and explore individual consciousness, and through linguistic means to present a different, defamiliarized take on the world. And the form has flourished in the post-Soviet era. In this new anthology, editors Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky aim to demonstrate that poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first century is the jewel in the crown of Russian literature. Out of each of the thirty-four works here included a personal view of the world emerges, but this collection as a whole conveys a bigger picture about a Russian poetic tradition that is both national and international, playful and existential, historical and contemporary. Each poem is reproduced in the original Russian and presented in translation. An explanatory essay introduces each poet and offers a close reading of the poem, with specific consideration of form, language, and questions of translation. The introduction provides an overview of the Russian tradition and explores how the history of its poetry is also an image of this complex and fascinating country. Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky aim to demonstrate that Russian poetry has been unstintingly responsive and illuminatingly vital even at the darkest historical times. Whatever the context, whether one of Socialist Realism or Glasnost', and whatever the mode of publication, whether official or clandestine in samizdat, Russian poetry has exhibited a remarkable resourcefulness"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on the Text

Introduction

1 Alexander Blok, “Free Thoughts. On Death” (1908)

2 Elena Guro, “Gone to sleep, gone quiet now, so kind” (1912)

3 Vladimir Mayakovsky, “Listen!” (1914)

4 Nikolai Gumilev, “The Sixth Sense” (1920)

5 Vladislav Khodasevich, “Ballad” (1922)

6 Velimir Khlebnikov, “Suppose I make a timepiece of humanity” (1922)

7 Boris Pasternak, “Poetry” (1922)

8 Osip Mandelstam, “The Horseshoe Finder (A Pindaric Fragment)” (1923)

9 Mikhail Kuzmin, “Not a governor’s lady with an officer” (1924)

10 Vladimir Nabokov, “Lilith” (1928)

11 Daniil Kharms, “Myr” / “The Werld” (1930)

12 Alexander Vvedensky, “Guest on a Horse” (1931–34)

13 Nikolai Oleinikov, “Cockroach” (1934)

14 Marina Tsvetaeva, “I Embrace You Like the Horizon” (1936)

15 Anna Akhmatova, “Secrets of Craft” (1936–60)

16 Ian Satunovsky, “Yesterday, late on my way to work” (1939)

17 Gennady Gor, “I lie together with my wife, the two of us in the apartment” (1942–44)

18 Igor Kholin, “Fences. Trash-heaps. Flyers. Ads” (mid-1950s)

19 Nikolai Zabolotsky, “Somewhere not far from Magadan” (1956)

20 Bella Akhmadulina, “Along My Street” (1959)

21 Alexander Galich, “The Night Watch” (1963)

22 Vladimir Vysotsky, “My Gypsy Song” (1967–68)

23 Dmitri Prigov, Three Poems about Dishwashing (1980s)

24 Elena Shvarts, “A Rubbish Heap” (1983)

25 Ry Nikonova, “furious furious rabious” (1985)

26 Olga Sedakova, “The Grasshopper and the Cricket” (1979–85)

27 Lev Losev, “One Day in the Life of Lev Vladimirovich” (1985)

28 Joseph Brodsky, “Homage to Chekhov” (1993)

29 Lev Rubinshtein, “That’s me” (1995)

30 Elena Fanailova, “. . . Again they’re off for their Afghanistan” (2003)

31 Linor Goralik, “Little Star” (2010)

32 Galina Rymbu, “My Vagina” (2018)

33 Polina Barskova, “Children’s Literature” (2019)

34 Maria Stepanova, “A little like this: instead of coming out of the closet” (2021)

Acknowledgments

Notes And References

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780691269399

0691269394

OCLC:

1500763204