The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin
by
Maxim Amelin
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cliff Becker Prize
ISBN-10
1945680199
ISBN-13
9781945680199
Publisher
White Pine Press
Imprint
White Pine Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 1st, 2018
Print length
180 Pages
Product Classification:
Poetry
Ksh 2,350.00
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Amelin's poems come to me with everything I need in certain moments, and nothing I do not: they bring God without consolation, history without meaning, irony without bitterness.
The Joyous Science offers a comprehensive introduction to Maxim Amelin. The poems span Amelin’s long career and cover his many thematic concerns. A loving collector of neologisms and a devoted student of Revolutionary word-smithing (à la Mayakovsky), Amelin keeps his poetry in suspension through a tension of opposites. He writes of bodily pleasures while musing on the body’s resurrection. He is critical of Russia but loves its language. Riddles, odes, and elegies appear alongside a long poem, “The Joyous Science.” This 20-page mock epic chronicles the exploits—both real and imagined—of Jacob Bruce, an astronomer, alchemist, and military strategist to Peter the Great. Amelin is a unique force in contemporary Russian poetry.
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