What We Saw from This Mountain by Vladimir Aristov and translated by Betsy Hulick, Gerald Janacek, Julia Trubikhina

This is poetry from Russia.

What We Saw from This Mountain by Vladimir Aristov translated by Betsy Hulick, Gerald Janacek, Julia Trubikhina is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937027377E12.

What We Saw from This Mountain, by Vladimir Aristov, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Betsy Hulick, Gerald Janacek, Julia Trubikhina, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2017. It is a Russian collection that seems to look outward from height and inward through estrangement. The poems invite a reader to think of perspective as an ethical problem: what can be seen, what remains obscured, and what language makes possible from a distance. 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.

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