Night wraps the sky by Michael Almereyda and translated by Various

This is poetry from Russia.

Night wraps the sky by Michael Almereyda translated by Various is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780374281359E12.

Night wraps the sky, by Michael Almereyda, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by multiple hands, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008. It is an assembled Russian volume that treats poetry as weather, performance, and argument rather than a tidy monument. It should be read for the way revolutionary imagination can become both public theater and private static, a voice thrown upward until history throws it back. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Russia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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