Apollo in the grass
selected poems
First edition.
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Author
Contributions
- Ueland, Carol, translator - Contributor
- Carnevale, Robert, translator - Contributor
Publication
2015 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
21,750 words, Guess
Page Count
87 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveapolloingrasssel0000kush
- ISBN-100374105731
- ISBN-100374535485
- ISBN-139780374105730
- ISBN-139780374535483
and 8 more
- ISBN-139780374713942
- ISBN-100374713944
- Library of Congress Control Number2014044642
- OCLC Control Number889164962
- Better World Books9780374105730
- Better World Books9780374535483
- Better World Books9780374713942
- Open LibraryOL26974106M
Classifications
- DDC891.71/44
- LCCPG3482.8.U73 A2 2015
- LCCPG3482.8.U73A2 2015
Description
Apollo in the Grass is the first collection in English translation of Kushner's post-Soviet poems, and also includes certain earlier ones that could not be published during the Soviet era. Kushner speaks to us from a place where the mythic and the historic coexist with the everyday, where Odysseus is one of us, and the "stern voice" of history can transform any public square into a harrowing schoolroom. This layering of times and events is also embodied in Kushner's distinctive poetic voice. Echoes of earlier Russian poets and styles enrich and complicate an idiom that is utterly natural and contemporary. Now, as in the Soviet era, Kushner's work is especially cherished for its exemplary stoic integrity. But these lyrical poems are also pieces of exquisite chamber music, songs where poetry dazzles but "greatness is ... sooner scaled to the heart / Than to anything very enormous.
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