Apollo in the Snow: Selected Poems 1960-1987 [Hardcover]

Aleksandr Kushner (Author), Paul Graves (Translator), Carol Ueland (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 29, 1991

Writing in a society centered on social ritual, Kushner has always celebrated the refuge of private life. His is often a sort of chamber poetry, contained and contemplative. This gathering of more than sixty poems, from Kushner's first collection of 1962 through the present, traces the poet's development and range.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

A stoic witness to the enormities of history and day-to-day survival, Russian lyric poet Kushner writes with the pulsing immediacy of Boris Pasternak and the self-contained composure of Anna Akhmatova. Even up in heaven, suspects this product of icy Leningrad, "we will find winter . . . all sounds canceled, stilled by total peace." With jolting symbolism, he rages at poet Osip Mandelstam's disappearance in a labor camp ("Mozart's skull, from between two columns of the news, calmly eyed us"). Kushner, born in 1936, is a deeply cultured yet down-to-earth poet who puts a contemporary spin on classical rhymes and meters. His achingly poignant lyrics give palpable form to love's wrenching separations, the omnipresence of death, the elusive search for a pattern in our lives.
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Review

"Poetry is essentially the soul’s search for its release in language, and the work of Aleksandr Kushner is a case where the soul has obtained that release."--Joseph Brodsky

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (January 29, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374105499
• ISBN-13: 978-0374105495
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,069,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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