This coming Wednesday, Honor Moore and others will read from our recently published anthology of Russian poems, newly translated by Paul Schmidt. The Stray Dog Cabaret is envisioned as a sort of poetic exchange among many of Russia's most important poets of the 20th century, including Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Essenin, Marina Tsvetaeva, and others.
The event is sponsored by The New School's Writing Program.
December 6, 2006, 6:30 pm, $5.
66 West 12th Street, Room 510.
Call 212.229.5353 for more information.
You can download a pdf of the index to The Stray Dog Cabaret here.
The photo above shows the text of Blok's poem "Night. A Street light, a drugstore" on the side of a building in Leiden, Netherlands. This Wall Poem Project includes a work of Marina Tsvetaeva's as well.
First, I believe this blog initiated by the NYRB is a solid idea in view ( or, perhaps, non view ) of authors and poets hidden from the west and the rest of the world during the cold war and, finally, fortunately, being brought to light for the first time.
No particular comments regarding the above poets and authors; however, I find the wall poetry via the provided link, an idea whose time is sorely, belatedly needed in the states.....don't you?
Posted by: frank kramer | December 03, 2006 at 04:43 PM