russian

The furnished globe of the earth is spinning

Two poems by Osip Mandelstam translated by Alistair Noon

…they move like snowstorms or squalls

A poem by Maxim Amelin translated by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher

…but any clever man is half a crook

Two excerpts from “Too Clever by Half” by Alexander Griboyedov translated by Betsy Hulick.

And from the sea the Policeman can be seen

Four poems by Dmitri Prigov translated from Russian by Matvei Yankelevich

Just like the old clown Who crawls across the movie screen