Description
Sergey Stratanovsky's Muddy River is the first comprehensive English-language selection of a contemporary existentialist Russian master. Taken together, the poems express the full range of Stratanovsky's verse, drawing on seven collections that represent half a century of writing. Muddy River is the essential Anglophone introduction to Stratanovsky's oeuvre, its now satirical, now psalmic, ever-searching poetics.
* Awarded Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship in 2000; shortlisted for European Poet of Freedom Literary Award 2015* Politically-charged poems composed from the 1960s to the present day* Themes: Chechen War, Russian history, folklore, religion
About the Author
In 1968 Stratanovsky graduated from Leningrad University. He worked as a tour-guide at the Pushkin Museum, the Hermitage and from 1983 as a librarian at the Russian National Library. He became well known through the anthology Apollon-77 and in The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Russian Poetry (1983). His first pubication inside Russia was in the collection Krug (1985). In 1981, together with Kyril Butyrin, he created a samizdat political-literary journal in Leningrad, The Obvodny [Bypass] Canal, which produced eighteen issues until 1993. He is a member of the Union of Writers in Saint Petersburg and PEN-International.
Reviews
'He does not paint in half-tones. The clash of clear, bright colors and sharp lines - this is his poetry.' - Russian literary critic Nikita Eliseev. 'It is very difficult in a few words to point to an unprecedented quality in Stratanovsky's work. It seems to me that his particularity is not even in how it is expressed, but from where it is articulated, there where sound has its source. From somewhere terribly deep: in a time of faith and magic, where and when element and consciousness are not divided and continue to constitute a meaningful whole.' - Mikhail Aizenberg
Book Information
ISBN 9781847772534
Author Sergey Stratanovsky
Format Paperback
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
* Awarded Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship in 2000; shortlisted for European Poet of Freedom Literary Award 2015* Politically-charged poems composed from the 1960s to the present day* Themes: Chechen War, Russian history, folklore, religion
About the Author
In 1968 Stratanovsky graduated from Leningrad University. He worked as a tour-guide at the Pushkin Museum, the Hermitage and from 1983 as a librarian at the Russian National Library. He became well known through the anthology Apollon-77 and in The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Russian Poetry (1983). His first pubication inside Russia was in the collection Krug (1985). In 1981, together with Kyril Butyrin, he created a samizdat political-literary journal in Leningrad, The Obvodny [Bypass] Canal, which produced eighteen issues until 1993. He is a member of the Union of Writers in Saint Petersburg and PEN-International.
Reviews
'He does not paint in half-tones. The clash of clear, bright colors and sharp lines - this is his poetry.' - Russian literary critic Nikita Eliseev. 'It is very difficult in a few words to point to an unprecedented quality in Stratanovsky's work. It seems to me that his particularity is not even in how it is expressed, but from where it is articulated, there where sound has its source. From somewhere terribly deep: in a time of faith and magic, where and when element and consciousness are not divided and continue to constitute a meaningful whole.' - Mikhail Aizenberg
Book Information
ISBN 9781847772534
Author Sergey Stratanovsky
Format Paperback
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
