Café Review 2019 Summer Russian Issue
Our latest Summer 2019 Issue of The Café Review continues our mission to bring Maine poetry to the world and poetry from around the world to Maine featuring poetry by Russian poets Gennady Aigi, Polina Barskova, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Vladimir Druk, Elena Fanailova, Maria Galina, Vladimir Gandelsman, Sergei Gandlevsky, Anna Glazova, Anna Halberstadt, Irina Mashinski, Yury Milorava, Philip Nikolayev, Helga Olshvang, Alexei Parshchikov, Dmitri Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, Andrei Sen-Senkov, Elena Shvarts, Victor Sosnora, Maria Stepanova, Marina Temkina, Alexei Tsvetkov and Dmitry Vedenyapin. This issue features work by artists Vitaly Komar and Oleg Vassilev with reviews by Wayne Atherton, Alyse Knorr and Julie Poitras Santos.
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Poetry Excerpts from this Issue
Kulikovo Field
Selected poems from Written Between 1975 and 1989
Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature
Horror Eroticus (Carnal Love Does Not Prefigure Bliss)
View of New York from the Night Sky
In the vegetal life of a poet
Farewell to youth, my very own Falstaff
My age still years away from patriarchal
Elegy for the Local Poet
Sad Foresight
Father’s Day
I do not know how it happened
When I become an American
A view. Of this orderly desert
Risk
The top
Don’t return: the KGB is back
A Woman’s Jataka
(Shades in Paradise)
Assizi
At an Icy Lake in Madison
A Cheer
Pigeon Post
living in a serendipity
dear darkness
the mirror
We Come from A Country
Narcissus Married Echo
Cats
Lions
Minus Ship
Touch these limits
Take grey
no cue in chalk
That Play
Butterfly
Old Photographs
Every city has its own smell.
There is no station here, the old man said.
hedgehogs and toads
humus births the sour air of respiration
lightening never leaves
in a bee’s mind exists
The end of the world
In the Right-of-Way
An Attempt to Explain
Resh
Lamed
Vitebsk, 1914
and when among the slightly broken turns
Depiction of Achilles at Patroclus’s Bonfire
Spent by the sun
Oh! In these elegies there are many strange beetles
You don’t believe?
On joy — a bridge falling asleep
Sorrow and Joy
And what remains from love
The last songs are gathering
The Women’s Locker Room at “Planet Fitness”
Saturday and Sunday burn like stars
Thank You in Several Languages
Beach in Orbit
Loser
A Woman on the Right
Silence
Artist Biographies
Poet Biographies
Dmitry Vedenyapin
Alexei Tsvetkov
Marina Temkina
Maria Stepanova
Victor Sosnora
Elena Shvarts
Andrei Sen-Senkov
Lev Rubinstein
Dmitri Prigov
Alexei Parshchikov
Helga Olshvang
Philip Nikolayev
Yury Milorava
Irina Mashinski
Anna Halberstadt
Anna Glazova
Sergei Gandlevsky
Vladimir Gandelsman
Maria Galina
Elena Fanailova
Vladimir Druk
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
Polina Barskova