Take Me to Stavanger

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

329 kr

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Amid the din of Russia’s patriotic sentiments and Instagram instants, is there any room left for the voice of a poet? Despite the many entertainments and distractions of modern life, Anzhelina Polonskaya’s spare but cutting poems in Take Me to Stavanger declare a wholehearted “Yes.” This bilingual Russian-English volume makes a refuge for the poet and her readers, plumbing the depths of contemporary melancholy and ennui. Beautifully crafted idiosyncratic dissections of a strong individual who refuses to go along with the currents of popular culture or political jingoism invite readers to slow down and pay attention.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-01-31
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt208 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor148
FörlagUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN9780822967163

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A gripping lyric examination of exile, Anzhelina Polonskaya’s Take Me to Stavanger devastates in its imagistic exactitude. In a world riven by war, no matter which country is ‘yours,’ Polonskaya writes, ‘You’re guilty wherever you go.’ Yet, somehow—within her spare, razor-sharp glimpses of joy and beauty—‘we lived as we could.’ Polonskaya’s poetry speaks across borders despite the risks of doing so; translator Andrew Wachtel brings it, in its full power and sight, to English readers.