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About the Author ✼ Literary prizes Books ✼ The Silk of Time. Bilingual Selected Poems. Ed. and introduced by Valentina Polukhina ✼ The Wild Rose. Translated by Richard McKane ✼ Poems and Elegies. Transl. Slava Yastremsky, Michael Nydan, Catriona Kelly, and others ✼ Freedom to Believe: Philosophical and Cultural Essays. Translated by Slava Yastremski, Michael Nydan ✼ Four volumes. Volume IV. Moralia (2010) ✼ Four volumes. Volume III. Poetica (2010) ✼ Four volumes. Volume II. Translations (2010) ✼ Four volumes. Volume I. Poetry (2010) ✼ In Praise of Poetry. Transl. by Caroline Clark, Ksenia Golubovich & Stephanie Sandler ✼ Old Songs. Translated by Martha M.F. Kelly POETRY ✼ From the book Kliazma and Yauza ✼ Surely, Maria, it’s not just the frames creaking... ✼ From the book The Wild Rose ✼ The Wild Rose ✼ Second Legend ✼ Sixth Legend ✼ Seventh Legend. Death of Alexis the Roman Saint ✼ Selva Selvaggia ✼ Leavetaking ✼ Now in warm gold, in broad bindings... ✼ Preamble to the Song ✼ Strange Journey ✼ The Flight of the Prodigal Sun ✼ Night Legend. The Nun’s Funeral ✼ Candlemas Day ✼ Names fly out of the magical horn... ✼ Cat, Butterfly, Candle ✼ Singing ✼ Water: The Peasant Woman ✼ Eight Octets ✼ In The Mood of Leopardi ✼ I carry two books, as I go I am leaving... ✼ We shall walk slowly and listen attentively... ✼ I often dream of death offering... ✼ Legends about ascetics are similar... ✼ I cannot make them stop their music... ✼ Three Mirrors ✼ Farewell Wind ✼ Somewhere in the corner of a neglected illness... ✼ Illness ✼ Journey of the magi ✼ Mountain Lullaby ✼ Morning in The Garden ✼ The Cat’s Look ✼ Azarovka. A Suite of Landscapes ✼ Portrait of the Artist in his Picrure ✼ Tenth Legend. Jacob ✼ Eleventh Legend. Supper ✼ Twelfth Legend. Sergey Radonezhsky ✼ Magic Stone ✼ A Faible ✼ Dreamer ✼ “I raise the radiance, like a fallen hand... ✼ The Old Poet ✼ From the book Tristan and Isolde ✼ The Mill Hums ✼ From the book Old Songs ✼ The Unfaithful Wife ✼ Old Women ✼ A woman’s lot is the spindle... ✼ Dedication ✼ Adam wept, but he was not forgiven... ✼ The cold of the world... ✼ From the book Gates. Windows. Arches ✼ Not by sea, nor by tree, nor by powerful star... ✼ Mountain Ode ✼ An Old Testament Motif ✼ The Grasshoper and the Cricket ✼ In the Liquor Store ✼ To Lycinius ✼ In the desert of life… What am I saying... ✼ On the Death of Leonid Gubanov ✼ Meeting ✼ Spring ✼ From the book Stanzas in the Manner of Alexander Pope ✼ Second Stanzas. On the Death of a Kitten ✼ Fourth Stanzas. In Memory of Nabokov ✼ Coda ✼ From the book Stellae and Inscriptions ✼ A Boy, an Old Man, and a Dog ✼ The Figure of a Woman ✼ Two Figures ✼ Mistress and Servant ✼ Pitcher: Tombstone of a Friend ✼ Playing Child ✼ Inscription ✼ From the book The Iambic Verses ✼ Fifth Stanzas. De arte poetica ✼ The Elegy That Becomes a Requiem ✼ The Chinese Travelogue ✼ 1. I was surprised by... ✼ 2. The pond speaks... ✼ 3. They don’t fall, though they fall... ✼ 4. There, on the hill... ✼ 5. Do you know... ✼ 6. I shall only see... ✼ 7. The boat flies... ✼ 8. The roofs are raised at the edges... ✼ 9. Unhappy... ✼ 10. Great is the artist who knows no debt... ✼ 11. With tenderness and depth... ✼ 12. Perhaps you are the precious ring of the spirit... ✼ 13. Will we really part... ✼ 14. Flute answers flute... ✼ 15. They say, they have gone on the white road... ✼ 16. You know that I love you so much... ✼ 17. When we decide to set out... ✼ 18. Let us praise our earth... ✼ From An Unfinished Book ✼ A Butterfly, or There Are Two of Them ✼ From the book The Evening Song ✼ All the Works ✼ Trees, Strong Wind ✼ A Song ✼ To V.V. Bibikhin ✼ Benjamin ✼ A Lullaby ✼ A Childhood Visit to a Village ✼ In Memory of Father Alexander Men’ ✼ From the book Elegies ✼ Autumn Water’s Elegy ✼ The Sycamore Elegy ✼ Earth ✼ The Beginning ✼ Music ✼ In Memory of a Poet ✼ From the book The Beginning of a Book ✼ To His Holiness John Paul II 1.Rain ✼ To His Holiness John Paul II 2.The Nothing ✼ To His Holiness John Paul II 3.Sant Alessio. Roma ✼ A Letter ✼ Lullaby ✼ Portrait of the Artist in a Middle-Age ✼ The Subway. Moscow ✼ The Angel of Rheims PROSE ✼ A Journey to Tartu and Back: A Belated Chronicle ESSAYS ✼ The Issue of Man in Modern Secular Culture ✼ "Non-Mortal and Mysterious Feelings": On Pushkinʼs Christianity ✼ "In the Vestal Abyss of a Line of Verse": On Meaning in Poetry and Meaning in Doctrine ✼ Mediocrity as a Social Danger ✼ The Light of Life. Some Remarks On the Russian Orthodox Perception ✼ The Art of translation. Some remarks ✼ The Morality of Art, or the Evils of Mediocrity ✼ Once again about Childhood, Poetry, and Courage. Answers for Elena Stepanian ✼ Hermes. The Invisible Aspect of Classical Literature ✼ A Discourse on Method ✼ Poetry and Anthropology ✼ On the Nature of Tradition ✼ Freedom as Eschatological Reality ✼ Waiting for a Response ✼ Totus Tuus ✼ In Memory of John Paul II INTERVIEW ✼ Excerpts from an Interview with Valentina Polukhina (May 1994) SUPPORT THIS SITE

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