Muddy River by J. Kates, Sergey Stratanovsky and translated by Jim Kates

This is poetry from Russia.

Muddy River by J. Kates, Sergey Stratanovsky translated by Jim Kates is published by Carcanet Press, Limited. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781847772534E12.

Muddy River is a Russian multi-author or collaborative poetry volume from Russia, associated with J. Kates, Sergey Stratanovsky, translated by Jim Kates, and published by Carcanet Press, Limited in 2016. It is a Russian volume associated with Sergey Stratanovsky where history, muck, flow, and witness move together. A muddy river is a good figure for poetic memory: moving, obscured, full of what has been carried downstream. 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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