Well into his third decade as a poet Gari Light uses his mature voice in Confluences to translate multicultural images and locales… These English poems by Gari have the same energy and elegance as his Russian poems, and they are enriched by his multilayered, polyphonic use of the English language to express thoughts and feelings with sophistication and humor… These poems are like seascapes, or...

Even though the geography of where the poems have been written tends to be quite vast, ranging from New York to Moscow, Kiev, Paris, London and Prague, the author appears to be spiritually connected to a certain metropolis on the South-Western tip of Lake Michigan, which became his American home in the early 1980's, and where he always appears to find his way back, at least for the time being.

‘Trajectories of Returns’ is a collection that includes poems written from the early eighties to the present day. In addition to a large number of new poems, it also features selected texts from the author's previous books, the print runs of which have already sold out: the collection ‘Returns’, which went through two editions in Kyiv in 2002 and 2005, and the collection ‘Trajectories’, printed...

Das lyrische Werk von Rainer Maria Rilke ist unvergänglich schön. Es altert nicht, erscheint universell und kommt nie aus der Mode. Rilkes Gedichte erobern mühelos jede junge Generation, denn sie verdichten immer aufs Neue Erfahrung und Empfindung, Suche, Ahnung und Erkenntnis. Kaum ein von Poesie infizierter Mensch geht durchs Leben, ohne sich ein Stück des Weges von Rilke begleiten zu lassen....

Sofort erkennt man, dass diese Zeilen nur aus der Feder eines großen Literaten stammen können, hier aus derjenigen Theodor Storms. Doch der norddeutsche Schriftsteller Klabund hat nicht nur die klassischen Trinklieder seiner Heimat zusammengetragen, sondern über 2000 Jahre Weltliteratur nach ihnen durchsucht. Und so entstand 1920 erstmals diese Sammlung von Sauf- und Trinkliedern der großen...

Anna Akhmatova was born near Odesa in 1889. Christened as Anna Gorenko, she adopted her penname from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo and lived most of her life in Saint Petersburg, the city with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married...

A collection of poetry and authobiographic piece in prose devoted to Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Sergei Prilutsky is a punk writer, virtuoso stylist and hooligan pupil of the ‘swamp glamour society’. A piercing lyricist and a desperate translator from the unbearable to the human. Author of the books ‘Hero of the Age of Stability’, ‘Patriotism for Dummies’, ‘Nineties Forever’, ‘Nothing Scary’, etc. Born in Brest. Since the end of the zero years he has lived in Ukraine. He survived the...

Masha Kaleka (1907–1975) emigrated three times. The first time as a child: her family fled pogroms from Poland to Germany. The second time in 1938, from Berlin. The Nazis recognized her first poetry collections as ‘harmful and undesirable,’ and she emigrated to the United States. And later to Israel. She escaped the worst. But homesickness weighed on her until her death. She never found a...

Unlike the more earnest English Romantic poets, followers of the Romantic movement in Germany valued wit and humor along with beauty. Admiration for nature is also prominent in their poetry, and in particular the dramatic forests which still cover large areas of Germany. Love and death crop up repeatedly as themes in such famous works as Goethe’s ‘Elf King’ and Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde....

The Polish poet Ryszard Krynicki, born in a Nazi labor camp in Austria in 1943, became one of the most prominent poets of the New Wave generation of 1968, his poetry offering what Adam Michnik has called ‘a strange and beautiful marriage of Joseph Conrad's heroic ethics with a great metaphysical perspective.’ Krynicki is the author of a body of work marked at once by the solitude of a poète...

Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, the Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan has brought international attention to his country’s struggle through his unflinching poetry of witness. In this searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, Zhadan honors the memory of the lost and addresses the living, inviting us to consider what language can offer to a country threatened with...