Book record
Twice Under the Sun
Anna Glazova
Translated from Russian by Anna Khasin
Twice under the sun, by Anna Glazova, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Anna Khasin, published by Shearsman Books in 2008. It is a Russian collection of spare, crystalline pressure, attentive to light, perception, and the small violence of seeing. Glazova's poems suggest that clarity is not the opposite of mystery, but one of the stranger ways mystery enters the room. 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.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781905700929