The Prison Poems Of Nikola Bukharin Transformation Of The World Verse About The Ages And About People by Nikolai Bukharin and translated by George Shriver

This is poetry from Russia.

The Prison Poems Of Nikola Bukharin Transformation Of The World Verse About The Ages And About People by Nikolai Bukharin translated by George Shriver is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781906497163E12.

The Prison Poems Of Nikola Bukharin Transformation Of The World Verse About The Ages And About People, by Nikolai Bukharin, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by George Shriver, published by Seagull Books in 2010. It is a work written under historical pressure, where prison, ideology, and imagination press against each other. What matters is the strange persistence of lyric making inside confinement, as if thought could keep building windows where the state had built walls. 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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