A Great Siberian Silence: Poems

By Randi Lee Anderson

"It’s January; I fold my hope and burrow in deep-dark to dream.
As a child I named myself winter. Even then
I knew where my visions were born."

A GREAT SIBERIAN SILENCE is a collection of poems composed during two summers and two winters in Siberia, chronicling a journey through darkness and disillusionment to hope and rebirth. They are poems of the mundane and the mystical, of memory, grief, and transformation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Randi Lee Anderson
• Release date: Jun 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781735202815

Randi Lee Anderson

Randi Lee Anderson is a fantasy writer, sometimes-poet, polyglot, painter, teacher (ahem, professor!), translator, singer, and doodler who runs Candless Creative, an independent publisher of books and art.

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First edition June 2020

Cover design by Aero Gallerie

ISBN 978-1-7352028-0-8 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-7352028-1-5 (ebook)

Published by Candless Creative

www.candlesscreative.com

To all the beautiful souls I encountered in Russia,

but in a special way to Zhenya,

to Hugues and Anatoly,

and to Father Janez.

All of you, named and unnamed,

have been instruments of immeasurable grace.

Contents

Ursa Major Wakes in January

Withering

The Ghost Light’s Song

The Hill-Top Exile, Dreaming Still

Empty Pods

Look, My Bones

Self-Portrait, Spinning

Weathering

Death and Pigeons at Dawn

This Is All I Know of War

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