Schizo-national anthems by Paata Šamugia and translated by Kristian Carlsson, Manana Matiashvili

This is poetry from Georgia.

Schizo-national anthems by Paata Šamugia translated by Kristian Carlsson, Manana Matiashvili is published by Dracopis Press. This is a Book originally written in Georgian. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.789187341106E12.

Schizo-national anthems, by Paata Šamugia and translated by Kristian Carlsson, Manana Matiashvili from Georgian, brings Georgian poetry into English through national fracture, anthem-making, and Paata Šamugia’s jagged Georgian attention to how countries split inside speech. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for anthem, schism, satire, and the unease of belonging to a nation that refuses to stay whole, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. 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. Schizo-national anthems belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a sharp Georgian voice to the library’s record of post-Soviet lyric experiment.

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