Bezdelki E-Book

Carol Rumens

• Herausgeber: The Emma Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Serie: The Emma Press Picks
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 16

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

In Carol Rumens's Bezdelki, small things like the English meaning of her Russian title help to shore up the memory of a life. These elegies for a late partner, written in memory of Yuri Drobyshev, explore the principle that death, even for atheists, isn't purely loss. Instead, a kind of conversation between two people can be continued through willed acts of memory, whether by rooting through incidental artefacts found in a toolbox ('defiant old metals, coupled/irrefutably and awkwardly for life') or by revisiting works of Russian literature that both members of the couple admired. In Rumens's pamphlet, translations and imitations of Osip Mandelstam share space with fragments of Egyptian mythology and 'a wardrobe of old sweat-shirts' to convey the powerful, and moving, impulse to 'live with your death unburied at my core'.

Leseprobe

Bezdelki

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Poems and Translations in Memory of

Yuri Georgievich Drobyshev, 1932-2015

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First published in Great Britain in 2018 by the Emma Press Ltd

Text © Carol Rumens 2018Illustrations © Emma Wright 2018

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The right of Carol Rumens and Emma Wright to be identified as the author and illustrator respectively of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

ISBN 978-1-910139-80-6

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‘Bread, beer, oxen, birds, my heart being sweet… cause me to carry to you anything –’from Taharqa’s Prayer to Amun-Ra.

‘Душа ведь женщина, ей нравятся безделки…’

The soul’s a woman, you know, the small things matter…