Book record
The zoo in winter
Polina Barskova
Translated from Russian by Boris Dralyuk
The zoo in winter, by Polina Barskova, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Boris Dralyuk, David Stromberg, published by Melville House in 2011. It is a Russian collection by Polina Barskova where captivity, cold, history, and creaturely perception cross. A winter zoo is a wonderfully uneasy image: enclosure made colder, spectacle stripped down to endurance. 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
- 2011
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781935554264