Muddy River
Selected Poems
Sergey Stratanovsky author J Kates translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Published:28th Apr '16
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* Awarded Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship in 2000; shortlisted for European Poet of Freedom Literary Award 2015* Politically-charged poems composed from the 1960s to the present day* Themes: Chechen War, Russian history, folklore, religion
Socialist and existential collection from one of Russia’s leading and award-winning poetsSergey Stratanovsky’s Muddy River is the first comprehensive English-language selection of a contemporary existentialist Russian master. Taken together, the poems express the full range of Stratanovsky’s verse, drawing on seven collections that represent half a century of writing. Muddy River is the essential Anglophone introduction to Stratanovsky’s oeuvre, its now satirical, now psalmic, ever-searching poetics.
'This important collection by a meditative poet who is in, but not of, the world he has chronicled for almost half a century.'
Boris Dralyuk, TLS
'He does not paint in half-tones. The clash of clear, bright colors and sharp lines - this is his poetry.'
Nikita Eliseev, Russian Literary Critic
'It is very difficult in a few words to point to an unprecedented quality in Stratanovsky’s work. It seems to me that his particularity is not even in how it is expressed, but from where it is articulated, there where sound has its source. From somewhere terribly deep: in a time of faith and magic, where and when element and consciousness are not divided and continue to constitute a meaningful whole.'
Mikhail Aizenberg
TLS review 9/9/
ISBN: 9781847772534
Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 5mm
Weight: unknown
128 pages