The Russian Version by Elena Fanailova and translated by Stephanie Sandler

This is poetry from Russia.

The Russian Version by Elena Fanailova translated by Stephanie Sandler is published by Zephyr Press (AZ). This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780939010981E12.

The Russian Version, by Elena Fanailova, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Stephanie Sandler, published by Zephyr Press (AZ) in 2009. It is a Russian collection attentive to public language, private injury, and the afterlife of national speech. Fanailova’s poems feel like arguments with the versions of reality handed down by power, intimacy, and cultural memory. 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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.