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A double life
An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures.
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A kindred orphanhood
A raft through the last twenty-five years of Soviet History.
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A million premonitions
Continually protean poetry.
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All the world on a page
The rich and ongoing development of Russian lyric poetry, explored through close readings of thirty-four poems by poets ranging from Alexander Blok to Maria StepanovaThe Russian cultural tradition treats poetry as the supreme artistic form, with Alexander Pushkin as its national hero. Modern Russ...
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Anatomical theater
The newest wave of Russian poetry, set to transcend linguistic borders.
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Brodsky among us
A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a crucial role in his fate.
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Centuries encircle me with fire
The introduction and translated poems of Mandelstam within are the gold-standard for critics and readers who don’t know Russian. They expertly illuminate other Mandelstam translations, not replacing them, but rather allowing for a better understanding of what they specifically contribute.
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Collected body
This charismatic Belarusian poet is considered "one of the best young poets in the world today " (World Literature Today).
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Disintegration of the atom and petersburg winters
Georgy Ivanov’s brilliant and controversial Petersburg Winters (1927), a memoir of blended fact and fiction, and the surrealistic Disintegration of the Atom (1937), a prose poem of Parisian émigré life moving erotically in war’s shadow “at the speed of darkness.”
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Eugene onegin
When Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin was first published in 1964, it ignited a storm of controversy that famously resulted in the demise of Nabokov’s friendship with critic Edmund Wilson. While Wilson derided it as a disappointment in the New York Review of B...
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Found life
One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal is on full display in this collection of poems, stories, comics, a pla...
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I saw it
In this ground-breaking book, based on archival and field research and previously unknown historical evidence, Maxim D. Shrayer introduces the work of Ilya Selvinsky, the first Jewish-Russian poet to depict the Holocaust (Shoah) in the occupied Soviet territories. In January 1942, while serving a...
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Küchlya
Küchlya (1925), the first novel of the great Russian formalist Yury Tynyanov gives us a vividly written and moving recreation of the childhood, youth, beliefs and adventures of an eccentric and idealistic young poet and friend of Pushkin, tragically caught up in the Decembrist insurrection of 182...
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Literature, exile, alterity
This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets’ diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and t...
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New york elegies
Ukrainian poets connected themselves to a powerful myth of New York, the myth of urban modernity and problematic vitality. The city of exiles and outsiders sees itself reflected in the mirror that newcomers and exiles created. By adding new voices and layers to this amalgam, it is possible to obs...
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Pages from a scrapbook of immigrants
Fifty-six narrative poems tell the story of the author’s family’s migration from Czarist Russia to the United States.Morton Marcus’s Pages from a Scrapbook of Immigrants tells the story of his family’s life in Czarist Russia and in America. The tale unfolds in a series of fifty-six accessible and...
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Salute to singing
Bilingual collection of 100 gem-like varations on Chuvash and Tatar folkloric themes.
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Selected poems of anna akhmatova
Definitive translations of Akhmatova back in bilingual format.
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Stone
“Invaluable. . . . [What] comes across in these translations is the verve and immediacy of the poems’ occasions.”—Seamus HeaneyA groundbreaking translation of the brilliant first book by one of the twentieth century’s most important poetsStone—Osip Mandelstam’s 1913 debut—marked the arrival of pe...
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The freest speech in russia
The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom—formally, thematically, and spirituallySince 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian poetry has exuded a powerful awareness of freedom, both aesthetic and political. No longer confined to the cultural...
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The man who brought brodsky into english
Brodsky's poetic career in the West was launched when Joseph Brodsky: Selected Poems was published in 1973. Its translator was George L. Kline, a Bryn Mawr professor and war hero. This is the story of that friendship and collaboration, from its beginnings in 1960s Leningrad and concluding with th...
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Voices of jewish-russian literature
This definitive and comprehensive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people’s history.
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Witness and transformation
A first full-length critical study of Chuvash-born poet Gennady Aygi (1934-2006), who is considered the father of late-Soviet avant-garde Russian poetry, this book charts the development of Aygi’s poetics, which draws equally on Russian poetic and religious tradition, European literature and phil...
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Words for war
The poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. The anthology brings together some of the most compelling poe...
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Writings from the golden age of russian poetry
Konstantin Batyushkov was one of the great poets of the Golden Age of Russian literature. Peter France interweaves Batyushkov’s life and writings, presenting masterful new translations of his work with the compelling story of Batyushkov’s career as a soldier, diplomat, and poet and his tragic dec...
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“i am a phenomenon quite out of the ordinary”
In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-42), one of the founders of Russia’s “lost literature of the absurd,” wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the first time in recent years in Russian, these note...
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“quiet spiders of the hidden soul”
This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection for the first time makes the major works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the most important Ukrainian Modernist poets of the twentieth century, available both to scholars and to the general reader.
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