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    Seven Lives: Almost Everything Can Be Taken from an Individual, but His or Her Story
    Seven Lives: Almost Everything Can Be Taken from an Individual, but His or Her Story
    Seven Lives: Almost Everything Can Be Taken from an Individual, but His or Her Story
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    Seven Lives: Almost Everything Can Be Taken from an Individual, but His or Her Story

    By Vladimir Azarov

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateAug 28, 2018
    ISBN9781550964493
    Seven Lives: Almost Everything Can Be Taken from an Individual, but His or Her Story

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      Book preview

      Seven Lives - Vladimir Azarov

      Formatting note:

      In the electronic versions of this book

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      SEVEN LIVES

      almost everything can be taken from an individual

      but his or her story

      vladimir azarov

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Azarov, Vladimir, 1935-, author

      Seven lives : almost everything can be taken from an individual but his or her story / Vladimir Azarov.

      Poems.

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-55096-391-5 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-55096-392-2 (pdf)

      ISBN 978-1-55096-449-3 (epub).--ISBN 978-1-55096-448-6 (mobi)

      I. Title.

      PS8601.Z37S49 2014 C811'.6 C2014-900188-6 / C2014-900189-4

      Copyright © Vladimir Azarov, 2014

      Preface copyright © Ewan Whyte, 2014

      Drawings copyright © Deborah Barnett, 2014

      Cover Image copyright © Ilia Efimovich Repin (1844–1930); The Volga Boatmen (1870–1873). Used by permission of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

      Published by Exile Editions Ltd ~ www.ExileEditions.com

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      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.

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      for my family

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Overture

      To Aunt Shura

      Leningrad

      A Cow Named Beauty

      Green Drowning

      Rag Doll

      Man Li

      Chechen Rhapsody

      Author’s Notes

      Acknowledgements

      PREFACE

      Seven Lives is Vladimir Azarov’s childhood experiences of Soviet life transformed into a poetic witnessing. into a poetic witnessing. Growing up in Kazakhstan, it was hidden from him that his family was in political exile. At the time, he thought people must always be coming to these difficult Soviet work colonies in the east from all parts of the country. This gave him an unrealistic optimism which helped him to overcome many of the challenges of his life at the time and to find his own way to live in that artificial world.

      One must dare to be happy, says Azarov of this perceived blindness. He cannot remember who other than Gertrude Stein said this but it became his philosophy.

      These poems, written in the form of short stories, are remarkable in their ability to bring past moments and lost times to life. Azarov does this with effortless ease. His ability to bring immediacy of experience and the poignancy of loss into the reader’s current imagination in bittersweet poetic

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