Shards from the Polar Ice by Lydia Grigorieva and translated by John Farndon

This is poetry from Russia.

Shards from the Polar Ice by Lydia Grigorieva translated by John Farndon is published by Glagoslav Publications. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781784379773E12.

Shards from the Polar Ice, by Lydia Grigorieva, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by John Farndon, published by Glagoslav Publications in 2016. It is a Russian collection where cold, fragment, exile, and polar distance shape the lyric field. Grigorieva’s title gives the poems a broken brightness, pieces of ice carrying both beauty and danger. 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.

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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