Paper bridge poems / by Vasyl Makhno ; translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings.
| Author/creator | Makhno, Vasyl |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington, DC : Plamen Press, 2022. |
| Description | xi, 125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Other author/creator | Jennings, Olena. |
| Other author/creator | Kaminsky, Ilya, 1977- |
| Included Work | Makhno, Vasylʹ. Poems. Selections. |
| Included Work | Makhno, Vasylʹ. Poems. Selections. English. |
| Contents | Vasyl Makhno: Bridges from Eternity into Our Moment / Ilya Kaminsky -- Paper Bridge -- Light -- Autumn Poems -- A Yacht Sails at Night -- Berlin -- Ten Thousand Doors -- Sacred Bread -- Letter to a Friend -- Magnolia -- The One -- Rain in New York -- Yellow Dog -- Granada, Nicaragua -- In Tbilisi -- The Miner -- My Mother Sings -- Nettle -- The Lute -- Elegy with an Onion -- Orchid -- Interrogation of a Sailor -- Looking Out at the Ocean -- From a Thistles's Palm -- Fireflies -- Christmas Poem -- Sermon on the Mount -- You Have it All -- If Bach Kept Bees -- Books -- A Folded Sheet of Paper -- In Paris -- A Brief History of English Poetry -- The World Is an Empty Subway Car -- September Observations -- Sickle-Winged Swifts -- Three Variations on the Theme of Derek Walcott -- In the Floodplains -- Awakening -- Wedding. |
| Abstract | "Paper Bridge is the first bilingual collection by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno, a 'master of the contemporary Ukrainian Ballad, who builds a lifeline for the broken-hearted wanderers, homeless heartbreakers, hopeless romantics, and helpful ironists,' in the words of Valzhyna Mort, winner of the Griffin Poetry prize. Makhno's bridge extends to us all, serving whatever purpose we need it to, as Lidijia Dimkovska, author of A Spare Life, writes, 'it is a bridge that can burn or resist... but it is a witness to the existence of a traveler through souls, bodies, and spirits, through our own subconsciousness.' With this outstanding collection of poems, Makhno is able to preserve an 'enviable spiritual equilibrium...one that grounds out the music even in the toughest of days, a music that survived the twentieth century and keeps alive in the new horrors of the twenty-first,' in the words of Los Angeles Book Prize winner Ilya Kaminsky, 'and now despite it all, even in his room in New York City away from Ukraine, [Makhno] can still hear how 'old age sings' how it 'nervously forces the music into a rhythm,' and how 'it might falter, but it plays again.''-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | LC copy signed by author. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | In English and Ukrainian on parallel pages; title page and preface in English. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022947174 |
| ISBN | 9781951508265 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |