Book record
The Score of the Game
Tatiana Shcherbina
Translated from Russian by J. Kates
The Score of the Game, by Tatiana Shcherbina, is a poetry collection from Russia, translated by J. Kates, published by Zephyr Press. It is a Russian collection whose title suggests contest, tally, performance, and the private rules by which a life is measured. Shcherbina's poems can be approached as language keeping score without ever agreeing that winning is the point. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Russia. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- Zephyr Press
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia