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A Fireproof Box
Gleb Shulpyakov
Translated from Russian by Christopher MAttison
A Fireproof Box, by Gleb Shulpyakov and translated by Christopher Mattison from Russian, brings Russian-language poetry from Russia into English through Gleb Shulpyakov's Russian fireproof image, memory container, and the urge to preserve what history keeps trying to burn. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for fire, box, memory, and the protective structure built around fragile evidence, not as a fixed lesson about Russia. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. A Fireproof Box belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a contemporary Russian lyric of preservation, loss, and carefully held aftermath.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Canarium Books
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9780982237670