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I Live I See
Vsevolod Nekrasov
Translated from Russian by Bela Shayevich, Gerald Janecek, Mikhail Sukhotin, Ainsley Morse
I Live I See, by Vsevolod Nekrasov and translated by Bela Shayevich, Gerald Janecek, Mikhail Sukhotin, Ainsley Morse from Russian, brings Russian-language poetry from Russia into English through Vsevolod Nekrasov's Russian minimalism, sight, and the directness of saying as a radical poetic method. 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 seeing, speech, minimalism, and the little acts of language that refuse grandiosity, 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. I Live I See belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the Russian shelf an avant-garde clarity where plainness becomes a form of resistance.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781933254982