Book record
Shards from the Polar Ice
Lydia Grigorieva
Translated from Russian by John Farndon
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.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Glagoslav Publications
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781784379773