War of the Beasts and the Animals (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
128
Utgivningsdatum
2021-03-25
Förlag
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Översättare
Sasha Dugdale
Originalspråk
Russian
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
231 x 155 x 13 mm
Vikt
250 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
149:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9781780375342

War of the Beasts and the Animals

av Maria Stepanova
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-03-25
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War of the Beasts and the Animals is Russian poet Maria Stepanova's first full English-language collection. Stepanova is one of Russia's most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers, and founding editor of Colta.ru, an online independent site which has been compared to Huffington Post in its status and importance. IImmensely high-profile in Russia for many years, recognition in the West has followed the publication of her documentary novel In Memory of Memory, first in German translation in 2018 and now with Sasha Dugdale's English translation - published by Fitzcarraldo in the UK and by New Directions in the US - longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. War of the Beasts and the Animals includes her recent long poems of conflict 'Spolia' and 'War of the Beasts and Animals', written during the Donbas conflict, as well as a third long poem 'The Body Returns', commissioned by Hay International Festival in 2018 to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War. In all three long poems Stepanova's assured and experimental use of form, her modernist appropriation of poetic texts from around the world and her constant consideration of the way that culture, memory and contemporary life are interwoven make her work both pleasurable and deeply necessary. This collection also includes two sequences of poems from her 2015 collection Kireevsky: sequences of 'weird' ballads and songs, subtly changed folk and popular songs and poems which combine historical lyricism and a contemporary understanding of the effects of conflict and trauma. Stepanova uses the ready forms of ballads and songs, but alters them, so they almost appear to be refracted in moonlit water. The forms seem recognisable, but the words are oddly fragmented and suggestive, they weave together well-known refrains of songs, apparently familiar images, subtle half-nods to films and music.
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Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. She has received several Russian and international literary awards (including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship). Her book In Memory of Memory is a documentary novel. It won Russia's Big Book Award in 2018 and was published in English by New Directions in the US and Fitzcarraldo in the UK in 2021, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. It has been published in Germany as Nach dem Gedachtnis (Suhrkamp, 2018). Sasha Dugdale's English translation of her collection of poems War of the Beasts and the Animals is published by Bloodaxe in 2021. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online independent crowd-sourced journal Colta.ru. Colta.ru covers the cultural, social and political reality of contemporary Russia, reaching audiences of nearly a million visitors a month in the past.

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7 Acknowledgements 9 Translator's foreword from SPOLIA (2015) 21 Spolia 45 War of the Beasts and the Animals from KIREEVSKY (2012) from Girls, Singing 69 Young aeronauts, floating to land... 70 In the white white sky... 71 Mother and Father didn't know him... 73 What is that sweeper, mother... 75 A train runs right across Russia... 76 Over the field the guns howled... 77 Empty featherbeds cooling... 78 Two classical athletes, Culture and Sport... 79 Running, running... 80 By the church's black fence Kireevsky 81 1. The light swells and pulses at the garden gate... 82 2. In the village, in the field, in the forest... 83 3. Tear tears along, chasing tear, and kicks it... 84 4. My lady neighbour drives out on black sables... 85 5. Where the dance was shaped in flame... 86 6. Chorus line, on our feet... 87 7. You my gifts, o my gifts... 88 8. Who guards our picket fences, our blooming hedges... 89 9. A deer, a deer stood in that place... 90 10. The last songs are assembling... from Underground Pathephone 91 Stop, don't look, come close... 92 Don't wait for us, my darling... Poems from earlier collections 97 Bus Stop: Israelitischer Friedhof 100 (as they must) 102 Fish The Body Returns (2018) 107 The Body Returns

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