Book record
This lamentable city
Polina Barskova
Translated from Russian by Ilya Kaminsky
This lamentable city, by Polina Barskova, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Ilya Kaminsky, published by Tupelo Press in 2010. It is a Russian collection by Polina Barskova where urban ruin, grief, and historical imagination meet. The city is lamentable not only because it has suffered, but because it keeps asking language to account for suffering. 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
- 2010
- Publisher
- Tupelo Press
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781932195835