This Lamentable City

by Ilya Kaminsky, Polina Barskova, Jim Schley

Polina Barskova's poems are a zesty paradoxical concoction: bawdy and erudite, elegant and raw, subtle and brazen. As Ilya Kaminsky attests in his introduction to This Lamentable City, "Barskova is an elegiac poet who brings to her American readers a language formally inventive, worldly and humorous. One of her strengths is her ability to bring together strikingly erotic, sensual images... with a deep sense of history and culture.... In Russian, Barskova...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932195831
• ISBN13: 9781932195835
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 33 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"