Gossip & Metaphysics : Russian Modernist Poems & Prose
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
193679747X
ISBN-13
9781936797479
Publisher
Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Imprint
Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 3rd, 2025
Print length
306 Pages
Weight
513 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 14.00 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry by individual poetsLiterature: history & criticism
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There has been no anthology in English dedicated to the poetics of the great generation of Russian modernists. For a group of poets so widely admired, relatively little seems known about their philosophy of poetry and their poetic influences, and although there is tremendous aesthetic diversity in this group, they have more in common than many readers assume. Russian poetry was a small world, made even smaller by the arrests, disappearances, pogroms, famines, assassinations, and political conflagration of the revolutionary era, and literary differences were often overcome by a mutual sense of historic cataclysm. This anthology’s structure is like textile, with many common threads intertwining, doubling back, sometimes unraveling—creating a matrix of poetic conversation: Mayakovsky on Khlebnikov, Pasternak on Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva on Pasternak, Brodsky on Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova on Mandelstam. Shared themes range from expected (the word) to serendipitous (the ocean). Above all these poets are obsessed with proximity—to God, to nature and place, to poetic predecessors, to language (their own and others), and always, forever, to the inexpressible.
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