LIFE, LIFE
A book of poetry by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, translated by
Virginia Rounding. Includes many poems used in Arseny's son's films
(Andrei Tarkovsky). With a bibliography of both Arseny and his son
Andrei Tarkovsky, and illustrations from Tarkovsky's movies.
This is one of the very few translations in English of poetry by
Arseny Tarkovsky available.
FROM THE INTRODUCTION:
Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky was was born in June 1907 in
Elizavetgrad, later named Kirovograd. He studied at the Academy of
Literature in Moscow from 1925 to 1929, and also worked in the
editorial office of the journal Gudok. He was well respected as a
translator, especially of the Oriental classics, but was little
known as a poet for most of his life, being unable to get any of
his own work published during the Stalinist era. His poems did not
begin to appear in book form until he was over fifty. His son, the
film director Andrei Tarkovsky, made extensive use of his father's
in some of his films, and certain of his diary entries indicate the
esteem in which the poet was held in the Soviet Union towards the
end of his life. An entry written after Andrei had given a talk at
the Moscow Physical Institute in 1980, for instance, reproduces the
following note from a member of the audience: 'An enormous number
of people in this hall admire Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky as a
great Russian poet. Please convey our respects to him.' One of the
few recorded public appearances of Arseny Tarkovsky was at the
funeral of Anna Akhmatova; he was one of three writers deputed to
accompany her coffin from Domodedovo to Leningrad, and he read both
at her funeral in Komarovo and at the first evening held in her
memory in Moscow. He died in 1989 and is now beginning to be
recognised as one of the many significant Russian poets of the
twentieth century.
From the poem;Ignatyevo Forest':
The last leaves' embers in total immolation
Rise into the sky; this whole forest
Seethes with irritation, just as we did
That last year we lived together.
Illustrated. With bibliography and notes. ISBN
9781861714300.
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