Verse and Versions by Anthology and translated by Vladimir Nabokov

This is poetry from Russia.

Verse and Versions by Anthology translated by Vladimir Nabokov is published by Harcourt. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78015101264E12.

Verse and Versions is an anthology of Russian poetry, translated by Vladimir Nabokov, published by Harcourt in 2008. It is an anthology-like gathering of Nabokov’s Russian poems and translation practice. The book is useful because it lets readers watch a major bilingual imagination test poetry against memory, music, precision, and exile. 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.