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Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Peacock Pie, 1627.

of plume and feathered fame

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:December 13, 2022
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A poem by Gavrilla Derzhavin, translated from Russian by John Hamel and Peter Orte.

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Read more about the article my lips, and all you’d loved them for
Max Klinger, Adam from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk III), 1898, public domain.

my lips, and all you’d loved them for

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:August 22, 2022
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Three poems by Lou Andreas-Salomé, translated by Sofija Popovska

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Read more about the article time naive and omnivorous
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, Setting Sun, 1907.

time naive and omnivorous

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:August 16, 2022
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Three poems by Gleb Shulpyakov, translated by Christopher Mattison

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Read more about the article “In the streets of Viy-possessed Kyiv…”
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Plate 21 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): It will be the same. (Será lo mismo.), ca. 1810. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

“In the streets of Viy-possessed Kyiv…”

  • Post author:Helen Hill
  • Post published:May 4, 2022
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A poem by Osip Mandelstam from The Voronezh Notebooks, translated by John High and Matvei Yankelevich

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mouths identical to mine

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:October 3, 2021
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A poem by Polina Barskova, translated from Russian by Valzhyna Mort

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Read more about the article nothing matters except having clean hands
Vincent Van Gogh, Shoes, 1988. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

nothing matters except having clean hands

  • Post author:Michael Barron
  • Post published:August 20, 2021
  • Post category:featured/Issue 9/poetry

A poem by Aleksey Porvin, translated from Russian by Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler

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Read more about the article diabolical laughter off‑stage
John Martin, Illustration for Paradise Lost, Book II Line I, 1827

diabolical laughter off‑stage

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:April 9, 2021
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Four poems by Roman Osminkin, translated from Russian by Helena Kernan

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Read more about the article a forest-city overruns the parquet floor
Mark Wingrave, Opening and Closing, 2021

a forest-city overruns the parquet floor

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:April 9, 2021
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Two poems by Evgenia Rits, translated from Russian by Mark Wingrave

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Read more about the article the tumbling avalanche of patterns, turn around
Christiane Baumgartner, White Noise, 2013

the tumbling avalanche of patterns, turn around

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:March 4, 2021
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Three poems by Stanislava Mogileva, translated from Russian by Josephine von Zitzewitz

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Read more about the article to be late for one’s flight
Gabriele Münter, Interior (Das Interieur), 1908

to be late for one’s flight

  • Post author:Elina Alter
  • Post published:March 4, 2021
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A poem by Liliya Gazizova, translated from Russian by Nina Kossman

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