Portraits Without Frames by Lev Ozerov and translated by Boris Dralyuk, Irina Mashinski, Robert Chandler, Maria Bloshteyn

This is poetry from Russia.

Portraits Without Frames by Lev Ozerov translated by Boris Dralyuk, Irina Mashinski, Robert Chandler, Maria Bloshteyn is published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781681372686E12.

Portraits Without Frames, by Lev Ozerov, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Irina Mashinski, Robert Chandler, Maria Bloshteyn, published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The in 2018. It is a Russian poetic gallery in which literary memory becomes a sequence of vivid encounters. The book is valuable because it treats portraiture not as biography, but as the flash by which another mind briefly appears in language. 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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.