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Endarkenment
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
Translated from Russian by Elena Balashova, Genya Turovskaya, Lyn Hejinian, Eugene Ostashevsky
Endarkenment, by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and translated by Elena Balashova, Genya Turovskaya, Lyn Hejinian, Eugene Ostashevsky from Russian, brings Russian-language poetry from Russia into English through Dragomoshchenko's Russian endarkenment, philosophical density, and the productive dark where perception becomes strange again. 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 darkness, thought, perception, and the difficult pleasure of language thickening around the mind, 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. Endarkenment belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings late Russian experimental poetry into the library through abstraction, pressure, and intellectual weather.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9780819573926