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Yevtushenko - Soviet Knut Hamsun in Poetry,
This review is from: Bratsk Station and Other New Poems (Paperback)
The white nights - the eternal "maybe."
Something is shimmering, strangely worrying me. Maybe it's the sun, but maybe it's the moon. Brand new ships' officers wander about, Maybe in Archangel, but maybe in Marseille, Maybe in sadness, maybe in joy. This is the Knut Hamsun of the Yevtushenko's poetry - as far as I am concerned. The Bratsk collection (Bratsk - by the way - translates - more or less - as Philadelphia) is a power station only at a face value. It's about the heroic survival of Subjectivity in Orwellian-style Climate of Objectivity of the Soviet 1960s. I remember growing up and watching Yevtushenko recite his poems on TV, during, say, the Soviet New Year's Eve TV-gala. I didn't like the way he looked. The "prole" (Newspeak for "proletariat") in me didn't dig the melancholic, existential dissonance that drafted in between the party-enough party-lines of his poetry. But now - I can't have enough of him. I hope you too discover this fading voice of the Soviet poetic past. Maybe you will, maybe you won't. Pavel Somov, Ph.D. Author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" (New Harbinger, Nov. 2008)
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A relic of Soviet heroism,
By Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (COMMUNITY FORUM 04) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Bratsk Station and Other New Poems (Paperback)
A poem about a power station? Where else but in Soviet Russia, where the building of hydroelectric dams was a cause for great pride, coming out of the long Tsarist night and the privations of the war. Yvgeny Yevtushenko, a fourth-generation descendant of Ukrainians exiled to Siberia, was at first an honored poet in the Soviet system and considered something of a shill. Later, however, he faced criticism and more when he wrote "Babi Yar" and condemned the institutionalized anti-Semitism of the Soviet regime. His poems, shill or not, are lyric yet masculine, a delight to read and show the Russian love of poetry. How I wish I could read Russian and hear these in the original language.
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This review is from: Bratsk Station, and other new poems, (Paperback)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is that rare poet whose passionate personal concerns are sufficiently representative of the concerns of his time and nation to make him spokesman for a generation. This volume is the complete Bratsk Station, Yevtushenko's major work, an epic cycle of thirty-five poems about the building of the hydroelectric power station at Bratsk in Siberia. To the poet, the Bratsk project represents the best elements of traditional and modern Russian life as brought together under the Soviet System. In Bratsk Station and the twenty-six other new poems collected here, Yevtushenko writes fervently of his faith in the ideals behind the Revolution, of the Russian land and people--and often of the troubled relation of the artist's "I" to the "we" of government.
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