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    Broken Pastries
    Broken Pastries
    Broken Pastries
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    Broken Pastries

    By Vladimir Azarov

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateAug 28, 2018
    ISBN9781550964516
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      Book preview

      Broken Pastries - Vladimir Azarov

      Formatting note:

      In the electronic versions of this book

      blank pages that appear in the paperback

      have been removed.

      BROKEN PASTRIES

      Vladimir Azarov

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Azarov, Vladimir, 1935-, author

      Broken pastries / Vladimir Azarov.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-55096-398-4 (pbk.).-- ISBN 978-1-55096-404-2 (pdf).--

      ISBN 978-1-55096-451-6 (epub).--ISBN 978-1-55096-450-9 (mobi)

      I. Title.

      PS8601.Z37B76 2014 C811'.6 C2014-900186-X / C2014-900187-8

      Copyright © Vladimir Azarov, 2014

      Cover Illustration copyright © Nina Bunjevac, 2014

      Published by Exile Editions Ltd ~ www.ExileEditions.com

      144483 Southgate Road 14 – GD, Holstein, Ontario, N0G 2A0

      PDF, ePUB and MOBI versions by Melissa Campos Mendivil

      Publication Copyright © Exile Editions, 2014. All rights reserved We gratefully acknowledge, for their support toward our publishing activities, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Exile Editions eBooks are for personal use of the original buyer only. You may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of this eBook, in whole or in part, without the expressed written consent of the publisher; to do so is an infringement of the copyright and other intellectual property laws. Any inquiries regarding publication rights, translation rights, or film rights – or if you consider this version to be a pirated copy – please contact us via e-mail at: info@exileeditions.com

      for my friends during the Thaw

      Contents

      Preface

      SONG I ~ EARLY MARCH

      SONG II ~ SHE KNOCKS

      SONG III ~ ALL OF US IN MOURNFUL ROWS

      SONG IV ~ THE THAW

      SONG V ~ AFTER GOING TO MY BED 

      SONG VI ~ LITTLE LAMB 

      SONG VII ~ INESSA ARMAND 

      SONG VIII ~ THE INSIDIOUS THAW 

      SONG IX ~ SHE, PERSISTENT MUSE 

      SONG X ~ LILI MARLENE

      SONG XI ~ SVETLANA 

      SONG XII ~ ALL OF MY LIBRARY 

      SONG XIII ~ NORTH STAR 

      SONG XIV ~ NO 

      SONG XV ~ YESTERDAY 

      SONG XVI ~ NIGHT, DARK 

      SONG XVII ~ I DO NOT BELONG 

      SONG XVIII ~ I DID NOT SLEEP 

      SONG XIX ~ I WAS BAPTIZED

      SONG XX ~ ELECTRICITY’S POLES 

      SONG XXI ~ SELF-PORTRAIT THROUGH A MAGNIFYING GLASS

      SONG XXII ~ TITANIC 

      SONG XXIII ~ OF BROKEN PASTRIES BY SOUR GRAPES 

      SONG XXIV ~ OF NATIVITY 

      SONG XXV ~ BROKEN PASTRIES 

      SONG XXVI ~ BUS BERLIN-PARIS 

      SONG XXVII ~ GODOT 

      PREFACE

      At the beginning of my work with Exile Editions, I had no idea I would run into such interest in, and understanding of, my home country by Barry Callaghan, editor-in-chief and well-known writer, poet, and journalist. I read his book, HOGG The Seven Last Words; more than 150 pages of poems and notes devoted to Russian history and culture, focusing on the controversial and contentious Soviet period.

      I was stunned. I thought: there are themes here in this work that I should explore through stories from my childhood and youth in exile in Kazakhastan, stories that would say something fresh about that poisoned, naïve, numbing period, that time of materialistic nothingness that could have been cast in Dante’s darkest circle.

      I remembered Krushchev and the so-called Thaw, that sudden coming in 1956 of openness into our lives. March of that year had been bitterly cold. In school, ink had refused to write. On one such day, I heard a solemn radio voice accompanied by sorrowful music...Stalin had died. Then came Krushchev’s speech denouncing Stalin, and then the Thaw in our social

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