Gossip and metaphysics
Subtitle: Russian modernist poems and prose
By: edited by Katie Farris, Ilya Kaminsky, and Valzhyna Mort
Series: Tupelo Press poetry in translation; Tupelo Press poetry in translation
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: North Adams, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781936797479
Subjects: Russian poetry; Translations into English; Modernism (Literature)
Description: A selection of poems and seminal prose texts about poetics from major Russian writers of the Modernist era.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Katie Farris; title: Boris Pasternak. Wild Vines / a version by Robert Lowell ; For Anna Akhmatova / a version by Robert Lowell ; Part Three, from Safe Conduct/ translated by Angela Livingston ; From a letter to Marina Tsvetaeva (March 26, 1926) / translated by Margaret Wettlin and Walter Arndt; title: Marina Tsvetaeva. A kiss on the forehead / a version by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine ; I know the truth / a version by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine ; I would have loved to live with you / translated by Valzhyna Mort ; From Art in Light of Conscience / translated by Angela Livingstone ; Poets With and Without History / translated by Angela Livingstone ; From a letter to Boris Pasternak (May 23, 1926) / translated by Margaret Wettlin and Walter Arndt ; From a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke (July 6, 1926) / translated by Margaret Wettlin and Walter Arndt; title: Osip Mandelstam. Tristia / translated by Christian Wiman ;  The Necklace / translated by Christian Wiman ; Leningrad / translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin ; Your thin shoulders / translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin ; From Conversation about Dante / translated by Jane Gray Harris and Constance Link ; From The Noise of Time / translated by Clarence Brown ; Alagez, Section VIII from Journey to Armenia / translated by Clarence Brown; title: Daniil Kharms. The Beginning of a Beautiful Summer Day (A Symphony) / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; Symphony #2 / translated by Valzhyna Mort ; Incidents / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; A Fairytale / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; Old Ladies Are Flying / a version by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; Something about Pushkin / translated by Matvei Yankelevich with Eugene Ostashevsky ; Gogol & Pushkin / translated by Matvei Yankelevich ; [Dear Nikandr Andreyevich,] / translated by Matvei Yankelevich; title: Andrei Bely. Pushkin and Gogol / translated by Christopher Colbath ; Gogol and Mayakovsky / translated by Christopher Colbath ; From The Dramatic Symphony, Part One / translated by Roger and Angela Keys ; From The Dramatic Symphony, Part Three / translated by Roger and Angela Keys ;  From The Dramatic Symphony, Part Four / translated by Roger and Angela Keys; title: Vladimir Mayakovsky. From Cloud in Trousers / translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey ; Past One O'Clock / translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey ; They Don't Understand a Thing / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; From I, Myself / translated by Katya Apekina ; How Are Verses Made? / translated by G. M. Hyde ; V. V. Khlebnikov / translated by Judson Rosengrant; title: Velimir Khlebnikov. Incantation by Laughter / translated by Paul Schmidt ; The Solo Actor  / translated by Paul Schmidt ; [Russia, I give you my divine...] / translated by Paul Schmidt ; [It's your business, gods] / translated by Paul Schmidt ; [Roast mouse] / translated by Paul Schmidt ; [The lice had blind faith, and they prayed to me ] / translated by Paul Schmidt ; On Poetry / translated by Paul Schmidt ; A Slap on the Face of Public Taste  / (written with David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh, and Vladimir Mayakovsky) translated by Anna Lawton and Herbert Eagle ; [Let them read on my gravestone] ; translated by Paul Schmidt; title: Anna Akhmatova. He liked Three Things / translated by Valzhyna Mort ; From Wild Honey is the Smell of Freedom / translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris ; A land not mine / translated by Jane Kenyon ; Voronezh / / translated by Katie Farris, Ilya Kaminsky, and Valzhyna Mort ; When A Man Dies, His Portraits Change / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; From Requiem / translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward ; Pushkin's Stone Guest / translated by Janet Tucker; title: Joseph Brodsky. Homage to Girolamo Marcello / translated by the author ; To My Daughter / written in English ; From A Part of Speech / translated by Daniel Weissbort with the author ; On Love / translated by Daniel Weissbort with the author ; From "Nature Morte" / translated by George L. Kline ; Letter to Horace / written in English ; From In a Room and a Half  / written in English ; From A Poet and Prose / translated by Barry Rubin ; Afterword: On Two Love Poems / by Valzhyna Mort.