Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
Ebook207 pages52 minutes
Mirror Sand: An Anthology of Russian Short Poems in English Translation
By Gennady Aigi and Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. It showcases thirty poets from Russia, and displays a variety of works by authors who all come from different backgrounds.
Some of them are well-known not only locally but also internationally due t
Related to Mirror Sand
Related ebooks
Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology (1921) Herstories: An Anthology Of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Comprehensive Anthology of Early 21st Century Arab Poets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAncient Scholars about the Turks and the Turkic Nations. (The Mega Edition - Volumes 1, 2.) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrisha and Other Short Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5At the End of Sleep Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNotes on Fragmentary Solitude Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree Chestnut Horses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen’s War Stories: The Lebanese Civil War, Women’s Labor, and the Creative Arts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings1914 and Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInara: Light of Utopia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWalter Scott - The Man Behind the Books: Biography, Journals, Letters, Memoirs & Autobiographical Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Think I'm Ready to See Frank Ocean Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConversations before Silence: The selected poetry of Oles Ilchenko Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn File Ar Buile: Poems from America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTangled Spirits: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMonster: Poems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ballads and Romances Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry Of Cats Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOverwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPulaski The Forgotten Hero: Of Two Worlds Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMirror Sand: An Anthology of Russian Short Poems in English Translation (A Bilingual Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Russian Poets: 1953 - 1968 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Bitter Air of Exile: Russian Writers in the West, 1922-1972 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Close Reading of Fifty-three Poems by Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArt in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIllegible: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBig Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Russia: Volume 4 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNecropolis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Requiem and Poem without a Hero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Poetry For You
Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Weary Blues Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ReadOn Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Anna Akhmatova: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet. 0% found this document usefulAnna Akhmatova: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the celebrated Russian poet. 0% found this document usefulNotes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part II. 0% found this document usefulNotes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part III. 0% found this document usefulNotes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part IV. 0% found this document usefulNotes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part V. 0% found this document usefulNotes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part I. 0% found this document usefulIsaac Deutscher, "Lenin's Childhood" (Verso, 2024): An interview with Isaac Deutscher 0% found this document usefulIsaac Deutscher, "Lenin's Childhood" (Verso, 2024): An interview with Isaac Deutscher 0% found this document useful
Related articles
On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile Literary HubArticle
On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile
Aug 31, 2020
7 min readStalin Erased One Generation Of Ukraine’s Artists. Now Putin Is Killing Another – Including My Friend | Charlotte Higgins The GuardianArticle
Stalin Erased One Generation Of Ukraine’s Artists. Now Putin Is Killing Another – Including My Friend | Charlotte Higgins
Jul 14, 2023
On 12 October last year, I met up in Kyiv with the novelist and war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina, who died on 1 July from injuries sustained in an attack on a Kramatorsk pizza restaurant. We had first encountered each other some days earlier
4 min read8 Russian Poets Who Taught Me How to Write a Novel About Russia Literary HubArticle
8 Russian Poets Who Taught Me How to Write a Novel About Russia
Dec 8, 2017
4 min readWriting Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization Literary HubArticle
Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization
Nov 2, 2017
11 min read“Where Poetry Comes From” The American Poetry ReviewArticle
“Where Poetry Comes From”
Sep 1, 2020
This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful. —Oksana Zabuzhko “Language, any language,” observed the young poet Oksana Zabuzhko, “is the capital love of my life” because “nothing else has the power to s
11 min readConfronting Anti-Semitism In Russia, In Words And Then Music NPRArticle
Confronting Anti-Semitism In Russia, In Words And Then Music
Apr 3, 2017
After the death of Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko on April 1, we revisit a 2000 feature about his most famous work, 'Babi Yar,' and the collaboration it inspired with composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
3 min readSoundtrack For A Siege MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryArticle
Soundtrack For A Siege
Jan 10, 2023
10 min readWhat Ukrainian Literature Has Always Understood About Russia The AtlanticArticle
What Ukrainian Literature Has Always Understood About Russia
Mar 10, 2022
5 min readDissident Lit The American ScholarArticle
Dissident Lit
Sep 1, 2022
My sophomore year in college, I took a class on the Russian novel. I remember our goodlooking young professor striding across campus in a long black coat, heads turning in his wake. It was said he looked like Lenin. His eyes burned like coals, his ch
9 min readThe Secret Art Society Guardian WeeklyArticle
The Secret Art Society
Aug 5, 2022
3 min readOn Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich Literary HubArticle
On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich
May 1, 2017
10 min readSpeak, Memory Country LifeArticle
Speak, Memory
Jul 5, 2023
MY first English Christmas was spent in Cambridge. The carol service at King’s College Chapel. A heavy snowfall. Icy grandeur. It was beautiful. It was cold. ‘There is nothing between the flat lands of East Anglia and Siberia except Ely Cathedral,’ m
3 min readUkraine’s Patriotic Master The Critic MagazineArticle
Ukraine’s Patriotic Master
Apr 1, 2022
3 min readThe Exuberant Diversity of Ukrainian Literature The MillionsArticle
The Exuberant Diversity of Ukrainian Literature
Feb 24, 2023
When Russia invaded Ukraine one year ago, the region of Sumy, just northeast of Kyiv, came under intense bombardment, endangering the house where Anton Chekhov spent two halcyon summers working on his play The Wood Demon, as well as several short sto
12 min readThe Russians Aren’t Coming The Critic MagazineArticle
The Russians Aren’t Coming
Nov 26, 2020
AROUND THE TURN of the century, I was approached by a London orchestra with a view to freshening up its repertoire. Having made a study of composers under the Soviet system, I proposed a series titled Other Russia, music of the greatest originality t
4 min readThe Soviet Anthology of “Negro Poetry” The Paris ReviewArticle
The Soviet Anthology of “Negro Poetry”
May 15, 2018
4 min readA Monologue VLADIMIR NABOKOV The Paris ReviewArticle
A Monologue VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Jun 8, 2021
2 min readThe Poet Who Survived Stalin’s Poems Literary HubArticle
The Poet Who Survived Stalin’s Poems
Aug 21, 2018
8 min readTriumphs of Pseudoscientific Reasoning: On Osip Mandelstam’s ‘Journey to Armenia’ The MillionsArticle
Triumphs of Pseudoscientific Reasoning: On Osip Mandelstam’s ‘Journey to Armenia’
Oct 8, 2018
1. In 1922, the same year the USSR entered the world, the poet Osip Mandelstam moved to Moscow, hoping to establish himself as a leading voice of the Socialist utopia he’d supported since his teens. Instead, he found himself an outcast. In early Sovi
10 min readThe Painter Provocateur MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryArticle
The Painter Provocateur
Feb 23, 2018
6 min readThe Biggest Threat to Putin’s Control of Crimea The AtlanticArticle
The Biggest Threat to Putin’s Control of Crimea
May 17, 2022
6 min readOn Ukraine’s Musical Frontline: How Pop And Classical Stars Have Taken Up Arms The GuardianArticle
On Ukraine’s Musical Frontline: How Pop And Classical Stars Have Taken Up Arms
Jul 23, 2023
Men arrive on crutches, two in wheelchairs, through a wintry dusk at the monumental neo-Renaissance opera house in Lviv, western Ukraine. Some 100 seats tonight have been reserved for serving soldiers, who enter the lobby – a fin-de-siècle wonder –
16 min readA Dusty Road Guardian WeeklyArticle
A Dusty Road
Nov 26, 2021
3 min readRock Star And Poet Serhiy Zhadan Is Fighting For The Future Of Ukrainian Culture TIMEArticle
Rock Star And Poet Serhiy Zhadan Is Fighting For The Future Of Ukrainian Culture
Jun 24, 2022
4 min readRock Star And Poet Serhiy Zhadan Is Fighting For The Future Of Ukrainian Culture Time Magazine International EditionArticle
Rock Star And Poet Serhiy Zhadan Is Fighting For The Future Of Ukrainian Culture
Jun 25, 2022
4 min readLove, Grieving, Intimacy And Enduring War: What Is The Role Now For Books And Writers In Ukraine? | Charlotte Higgins The GuardianArticle
Love, Grieving, Intimacy And Enduring War: What Is The Role Now For Books And Writers In Ukraine? | Charlotte Higgins
Oct 21, 2023
Last year’s Lviv BookForum, a literary festival in the elegant western Ukrainian city, was mostly an online affair, held in a basement lecture theatre that might double up, if needed, as a bomb shelter. By contrast, this year’s edition had about 150
4 min readTwo Iconic Russian Poets, the Couch They Shared, and Me Literary HubArticle
Two Iconic Russian Poets, the Couch They Shared, and Me
Jan 4, 2019
6 min readVladimir Putin’s Waning Tolerance for Art The AtlanticArticle
Vladimir Putin’s Waning Tolerance for Art
Oct 26, 2021
5 min readThe Sound Of Resistance Guardian WeeklyArticle
The Sound Of Resistance
Jul 28, 2023
9 min readThe CIA Scheme That Brought Doctor Zhivago to The World Literary HubArticle
The CIA Scheme That Brought Doctor Zhivago to The World
Apr 12, 2019
6 min read
Related categories
Reviews for Mirror Sand
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Mirror Sand - Gennady Aigi
Ja book_preview_excerpt.html YKr#
GQO3=VԿ%ecE{V,Q@5>dWs|_G%H@/'˗k0y|f7q(;}XQf2d95Uz`DBt[^
I
-XsoTnCi[ޭ͕+MJQ۩J5zhG {Q
E)iww(_q]B0)C]|SI;+uQ&*
}%γ`cviN8i}K{ giM *koq(p+vv%P: JԢRRXX tlF :jƭ`[hV3m|g1e
k"xHuL#e
W70g!\?; 0^Op&WBk^r%*Z9bUll#3aWei۰[ ȭ(-
ݬe!מ>܄n
\Y{ lb3ެ 4ý l ljO.[ -lxKvX_K`AhHQDAkPT}pܷ\svey;_d2 tM㮣[k|4瀥Sص )ҕƸ?A|XWF
b ӎ)õ@ہ1k R1rGegI+6V4ѓ =q7#Qq 85dM ] lo,3.)֯Eo'Lkc (mBW,#]Ja Dmb VB4p |
LXU GrCHt~a<^ߟ r?,T1eZG!}`
ePPts` c\=m`"Y
᮳ 3@R8҄rSM.v{کr {`6ɻѻ ߍ.}
ņA{YQ[ bFR8('ӝ\XNh_n/lw
k8C\6c5ؒM_
*J\Eau pIjR |H}ZPn%EJL#j$ [OO(dV:EK"!w{` U&= {8svI
v*DBШ!b:0u)%Pf7ʫSz gX_ƪŇqAPrUk{~8Lé+:1J:f8 Yq OG.ch3EFM }
=6U~gU"%6ǝ@Kܘ=ѧ>nQ>4Z)+QsN+; "_~ǧlbf_XQmkc2TE B@~GD-ĺz8 $ٗ;EWa{@
&Y/thL Fe:Ҩdھv]2g.٢$4^\:^"<=IL@$q+a
VOI_
mrNEqٞa(!]b#4Py&kcIן[TK, rĒ2*hl]%O v\ȃ̗ 2s25pTΔX&b]J`HcY5>2v" cv>,hAFAnHy[x .ޥ(U
]p2 >C&pl#+bəG7Ԗ2_"BMCpL]"Lm?s!hg ;L*W&Xb4x&(&[{)r _{(@#&
26ps1kA6e,}iKcV ݼ)ֈ*lf6F-j6#"رjn 1odT#H\PF{T*XȔ Cn:iS]S?p`2x{H]d^#1w
Hp̠R7Kz~nklO ڀ|&}&
E> 27AS80~}!#ԧ,c [ٽvA5LgtV.9u \~]`' Lt\˟rL Ҝ] mEW8*
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1