In this first ever collection of Sakha poems in our English
language, the highly talented poet Natalia Kharlampieva weaves
openly neo-Impressionistic threads of common heritage, communal
faith and shared ethnicity, into an overall tapestry of cultural
optimism. Indeed, to Kharlampieva's mind, the unique significance
played by independent women (willing to endure every hardship) in
these restorative endeavours clearly signals the spiritual strength
of Central Asia. A lesson, moreover, she obliquely suggests the
West itself still needs to learn. Of course, in Kharlampieva's
case, these powerful declamations are set against the grinding
impact of icy expanses on Sakha psyches. And as such, Kharlampieva
invites the readers of Foremother Asia into a hardy, but delicate
world: a narratorial sphere characterised by the need to survive
against all odds. Indeed, once her reader's grasp that the capital
city of the Sakha Republic is located a mere 450 kilometres south
of the Arctic Circle, they will begin to accept the insights of
this crisp and original volume as a singular contribution to Global
Text. Unanimously applauded as an impassioned book revealing the
delights of a recovered national identity, Kharlampieva also
captures Natures savage beauty, as well as the harsh existential
truths of life in the far North. QUOTES: While in Yakutia, a local
legend mesmerized me: afiery Viking warrior sailed up the Lena
river to the land of permafrost and melted the heart of an
indigenous woman. Their child was the first Yakut; her voice echoes
through the ages in Foremother Asia, leaving no one untouched. S
lvi Fannar Vi arsson, actor, poet, author of A Poet Trapped in a
Caveman's Body and Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Iceland "Whether
she writes about love, about friendship, about the fate of her
people, or of the entirety of Russia, her words (as if in her
hands), hold life. She saves it from a lack of spirituality,
hatred, disintegration and chaos, as well as self-destruction ...
Happy and rich is the ethnic group that has such people." Sergei
Glovyuk, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, Honorable Member
of the Union of Writers of Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro Poems
by Natalia Kharlampieva are like a fine rain falling onto the
ground, whereon it becomes water giving life to germinating seeds
of kindness, forgiveness, understanding and love ..... "in any
country, in any century ..." Lenifer Mambetova, Poet and winner of
the best female work OEBF-2014 Republic of Crimea
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