War of the Beasts and the Animals

CONTENTS

Title Page

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD

from SPOLIA (2015)

Spolia

War of the Beasts and the Animals

from KIREEVSKY (2012)

from Girls, Singing

Young aeronauts, floating to land…

In the white white sky…

Mother and Father didn’t know him…

What is that sweeper, mother…

A train runs right across Russia…

Over the field the guns howled…

Empty featherbeds cooling…

Two classical athletes, Culture and Sport…

Running, running…

By the church’s black fence

Kireevsky

1. The light swells and pulses at the garden gate…

2. In the village, in the field, in the forest…

3. Tear tears along, chasing tear, and kicks it…

4. My lady neighbour drives out on black sables…

5. Where the dance was shaped in flame…

6. Chorus line, on our feet…

7. You my gifts, o my gifts…

8. Who guards our picket fences, our blooming hedges…

9. A deer, a deer stood in that place…

10. The last songs are assembling…

from Underground Pathephone

Stop, don’t look, come close,…

Don’t wait for us, my darling…

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(as they must)

Fish

The Body Returns (2018)

The Body Returns

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