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    Sochi Delirium: Poems
    Sochi Delirium: Poems
    Sochi Delirium: Poems
    Ebook122 pages46 minutes

    Sochi Delirium: Poems

    By Vladimir Azarov

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateAug 28, 2018
    ISBN9781550964431
    Sochi Delirium: Poems

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      Book preview

      Sochi Delirium - Vladimir Azarov

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Azarov, Vladimir, 1935-, author

      Sochi delirium : [poems] / Vladimir Azarov

      Issued in print and electronic formats.

      ISBN 978-1-55096-440-0 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-55096-441-7 (pdf).--

      ISBN 978-1-55096-443-1 (epub).--ISBN 978-1-55096-439-4 (mobi)

      I. Title.

      PS8601.Z37S62 2014 C811'.6 C2014-904194-2

      C2014-904195-0

      Copyright © Vladimir Azarov, 2014

      Published by Exile Editions Ltd ~ www.ExileEditions.com

      144483 Southgate Road 14 – GD, Holstein ON N0G 2A0 Canada.

      Publication Copyright © Exile Editions, 2014. All rights reserved.

      Digital formatting by Michael Callaghan

      ePUB and MOBI versions by Melissa Campos Mendivil

      We gratefully acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF), the Ontario Arts Council–an agency of the Ontario Government, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation for their support toward our publishing activities.

      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

      Some like it hot, and this is for them.

      Formatting note:

      In the electronic versions of this book 

      blank pages that appear in the paperback 

      have been removed.

      Prologue

      ONE

      Heavy Night Air, Impending Rain

      TWO

      Some Like It Hot

      THREE

      Sochi Olympics? This Year?

      FOUR

      On a Sunny Day at the Abandoned Olympic Centre in Munich

      FIVE

      A Link Between Deeds

      SIX

      1972, My Great Soviet Epoch

      SEVEN

      Marilyn to Herself

      EIGHT

      A Pause in the Clock, Intermission 1

      NINE

      A Carousel, Kaleidoscopic Stream

      TEN

      Sweet Kowalczyk Says to Me

      ELEVEN

      Hey, Sochi Girl, I’ve a Proposal

      TWELVE

      I Was in Moscow Recently

      THIRTEEN

      Do Not Warm Me With Passion

      FOURTEEN

      A Pause in the Clock, Intermission 2

      FIFTEEN

      Sugar Hypnotic Near Me

      SIXTEEN

      Where Am I Now, Vladimir?

      SEVENTEEN

      Of Russian Culture!

      Epilogue

      The Author & His Books

      Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

      – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

      Why did you travel?

      Because the house was cold—

      – MARK STRAND When he was

      PROLOGUE

      We cannot find real truths hidden in this darkness, in this trembling irrational reality, in this raw tangle of associations, hints, illusions and delusions.

      Even so, I have chosen a moment, a circle in TIME – one year, 1972 – as a point on which to play out my tilted dream of this real world.

      1972—

      My impression of actual waltzing kaleidoscopic events that year! Do these events connect? They are certainly connected in my brain. I’m a Muscovite in London on my first jail break from my home country, carefree among a gay, footloose crowd of U.K. hippies. Though a young architect, I am somewhat older than they but I feel my heart beating to the same rhythm of carefree silliness, silly laughter being its own way of transcending. And then, that giant of modern art – Henry Moore – appears before me in his estate garden close to London. Yes, 1972!

      The Olympics in Munich. A German friend, an architect, takes me some years later to a half-abandoned urban space during my German trip. Derelict and neglected. The sad, almost obliterated architectural landscape leads to a flashback of 1972 news, a tragic terrorist attack. Eleven young Israeli sportsmen killed. Sport and death. The ’36 Olympics. Leni Riefenstahl. Images revolve. In 1972, she’s still alive but she’s elsewhere, making a film, shooting an ocean

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