Poetry and Film: Artistic Kinship Between Arsenii and Andrei Tarkovsky
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ISBN-13: | 9781849762496 |
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Publisher: | Tate Publishing & Enterprises, L.L.C. |
Publication date: | 05/05/2015 |
Edition description: | Critical ed. |
Pages: | 240 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements and Image Credits 10
Note on transliteration and pronunciation 11
Introduction 13
I Affinities 13
II The Poet's Voice 35
Notes to the Introduction 68
Selected Poems
Just Before Leaf-fall 78
The Cradle 78
'Sugakleia river runs away into the reeds' 79
'Dew swells on the grass's heart' 79
Ignat'evo Forest 80
'When the bathing woman with heavy braided hair' 81
The Portrait 81
'Yesterday from early on I waited' 81
The Skiff 82
'Opening my notebook I studied the grass' 82
The Steppe 83
Become Yourself 84
Joan of Arc's Tree 85
'You who lived in this world before me' 87
Socrates 87
Karlovy Vary 88
Angelo Secchi 88
'May Vincent van Gogh forgive me' 89
The Translator 90
'Sometimes as you walk through town' 91
This Earth 92
'Around the threshold of the Lord' 92
'Put my St Nicholas into my hand' 93
'I call - there is no answer, Marina's sleep is sound' 94
'There was nothing you would not do' 95
Song Under Fire 96
'In the unpeopled steppe an eagle rests' 97
'The gun emplacement was just here behind the hill' 97
Field Hospital 98
Butterfly in a Hospital Garden 99
Ivan's Willow 100
After the War 101
Warning 102
Titania 103
'Life has taught me gradually' 104
'Its yellow flame twinkling' 107
'Let us quietly make ready' 107
T said "Hullo!" and my heart contracted' 108
'The table has been set for six' 108
'Fire like a golden bird' 109
'Rooms were low-ceilinged' 110
'Some black day I'll dream' 111
The Wind 112
Song 113
Eurydice 114
First Meetings 115
'Just like forty years ago' (1) 117
'Just like forty years ago' (2) 117
'Praise - for their light and tears' 118
The Iurodivy in 1918 119
Lines from Childhood Notebook 119
Photography 121
In the Middle of the World 121
Riddle and Answer 122
On the Riverbank 123
The Forester's Hut 123
The Manuscript 124
Poets 125
Verses in Notebooks 125
Aeschylus 126
Stone on the Path 126
The Poet 127
From an Old Notebook 128
In Memory of Marina Tsvetaeva
'Where is your thundering wave' 129
'I can hear, I'm not asleep, you're calling me, Marina' 129
'Lovers of truth, friends, masters' 130
Washing 131
As It Was Twenty-two Years Ago 131
Twenty-two Years On 132
Komitas 133
The Steppe Reed Pipe
I 'They lived, they waged war, they went hungry' 134
II 'Every sound on earth has its own echo' 134
III 'Where Ovid translated' 134
IV 'The bitter, parched earth of the steppe' 135
'Oh, could I but move, come round, wake up' 136
World and Language 136
Inscription in a Book (I) 137
At Right Angles 137
Daghestan 138
Transformation 139
The Bull, Orion and the Great Dog 140
Snowy Night in Vienna 141
In Winter 141
Navigation Ended 142
Life, Life 142
Dreams 144
Insomnia 144
Kore 146
'Dove-grey evening wings' 146
Olive Trees 147
The Actor 148
The Blue Ray 149
Paul Klee 150
Ward 4 151
'And I come from nowhere' 152
'When nature and lexis launch into dispute' 153
'From a volume of stone I learn language that is beyond time' 153
'War with Germany had not yet broken out' 153
'A ghost, an empty sound' 154
'As a child I once fell ill' 155
Swallows 156
The White Day 156
'Now summer is gone' 157
Azov 158
'A star dances before stars' 158
'In the universe our happy reason' 159
'Our blood does not yearn after home' 159
'Still from above on to time and space' 159
In Memory of Anna Akhmatova
'I made up a bed of snow' 160
'At St Nikola by Sea' 160
'Home, home, home' 161
'Over ice, over snow, over jasmine' 162
'White pine trees' 162
'And this shade too I saw along the road' 163
'When like a bonded slave beneath the pines' 164
'And I have dreamed of this, and this is what I dream' 164
Theophanes 165
Pushkin Epigraphs
I 'Will you tell me why, my sister' 166
II Tike that prisoner in his pit' 167
III 'I have worked out the conundrum' 168
IV 'I was given short change in the shop' 169
Grigorii Skovoroda 170
'Where burial mounds, face down in grass' 170
'Thunder and clanging still fill our ears' 172
Once Upon a Time 173
'Damp, earthy smells were borne through the window' 174
'Sight is fading - my power' 175
'The body is waking' 176
'In the last month of autumn' 176
'What a mass of leaves. They are our trees' lungs' 177
'Moths laugh as if they've lost their wits' 177
T was not killed in the war' 178
To the Memory of Friends 179
'For my daily bread, for every drop of water' 179
Testament 180
The Olive Grove 184
Medem 186
'From out in his yard the dog stares into the window' 187
'A town stands on the river' 18s 'Easter chimes floated down the Volga from lurovets' 189
Invitation to a Journey 190
Inscription in a Book (2) 191
Doorbell in the Night 191
'Air heavy with iron and rotting potatoes' 192
'Like Jesus crucified upon the cross' 193
To Youth 194
Psyche 195
To a Notebook of Poems 196
'I'm going to don an iron ring' 196
'You were such bitter stuff, so blind' 197
Notes to the Poems 199
Appendix I Pushkin Poems 225
Appendix II The Process of Translation 228
Bibliography 231
Arsenii Tarkovsky: significant biographical dates 234
Index 235