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The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin

The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin

Amelin, Maxim
Mong, Derek
Fisher, Anne O.

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Series: Cliff Becker Prize

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1945680199
ISBN13: 9781945680199
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: Sep 18 2018
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Joyous Science offers a comprehensive introduction to Maxim Amelin. The poems span Amelin's long career and cover his many thematic concerns. A loving collector of neologisms and a devoted student of Revolutionary word-smithing (à la Mayakovsky), Amelin keeps his poetry in suspension through a tension of opposites. He writes of bodily pleasures while musing on the body's resurrection. He is critical of Russia but loves its language. Riddles, odes, and elegies appear alongside a long poem, The Joyous Science. This 20-page mock epic chronicles the exploits--both real and imagined--of Jacob Bruce, an astronomer, alchemist, and military strategist to Peter the Great. Amelin is a unique force in contemporary Russian poetry.

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