Apollo in the grass by Aleksandr Kushner and translated by Carol Ueland, Robert Carnevale

This is poetry from Russia.

Apollo in the grass by Aleksandr Kushner translated by Carol Ueland, Robert Carnevale is published by FSG. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780374535483E12.

Apollo in the grass, by Aleksandr Kushner, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Carol Ueland, Robert Carnevale, published by FSG in 2015. It is a Russian collection by Aleksandr Kushner where classical allusion and ordinary ground enter the same field. The charm of the title is its collapse of scale: Apollo not in marble or sky, but in grass. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Russia. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

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