Mirror Sand - (Paperback)

About the Book

Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this bilingual anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. It showcases thirty poets from Russia and displays a variety of works by authors.

Book Synopsis

Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this bilingual 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 to festival appearances and translations into European languages; among them are Gennady Aigi, Gennady Alexeyev, Vladimir Aristov, Sergey Biryukov, Konstantin Kedrov, Igor Kholin, Viktor Krivulin, Vsevolod Nekrasov, Genrikh Sapgir, and Sergey Stratanovsky.

The next Russian poetic generation also features prominently in the collection. Such poets as Tatyana Grauz, Dmitri Grigoriev, Alexander Makarov-Krotkov, Yuri Milorava, Asya Shneiderman and Alina Vitukhnovskaya are the ones Russians like to read today.

This anthology shows Russia looking back at itself, and reveals the post-World-War Russian reality from the perspective of some of the best Russian creative minds. Here we find a poetry of dissent and of quiet observation, of fierce emotions, and of deep inner thoughts.

Review Quotes

"Anatoly Kudryavitsky and his publishers have done a signal service to anglophone readers in making these poems available." Michael Pursglove, East-West Review"In a sense, Mirror Sand outlines what may be called the lesser tradition in Russian poetry. Readers and learners already familiar with the great names of the Russian canon will be intrigued to discover this tradition: some may be inspired to look closer at the shades of meaning and style in the Russian originals and their reflections in English." Anna Muza, Delos