Red Shifting by Alexander Skidan and translated by Genya Turovskaya

This is poetry from Russia.

Red Shifting by Alexander Skidan translated by Genya Turovskaya is published by Zephyr Press. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78093901095E12.

Red Shifting, by Alexander Skidan, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Genya Turovskaya, published by Zephyr Press in 2008. It is a Russian collection with the charged atmosphere of movement, distortion, and political afterimage. The poems feel alert to a world that will not stay fixed, where language moves like light away from disaster and still carries its evidence. 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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