Endarkenment: Selected Poems

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Endarkenment Wesleyan Poetry s e l e c t e d p o e m s Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky Translated by Lyn Hejinian, Genya Turovskaya, Eugene Ostashevsky, Bela Shayevich, Jacob Edmond, and Elena Balashova Foreword by Lyn Hejinian Wesleyan University Press | Middletown, Connecticut Endarkenment wn, Connecticut Endarkenment ARKADII DRAGOMOSHCHENKO Wesleyan University Press | Middletown CT 06459 | www.wesleyan.edu/wespress | © 2014 Estate of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko | Foreword © Lyn Hejinian | “Dragomoshchenko’s Russian” © Eugene Ostashevsky | All rights reserved | Manufactured in the United States of America | Designed by Eric M. Brooks | Typeset in Skolar by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. | Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. | Earlier versions of these translations have appeared in American Reader,The Germ, Gulf Coast, Ice Floe, Jacket2, Little Star, A Public Space, and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s Description (Sun & Moon, 1990). This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dragomoshchenko, A. (Arkadii), author. | [Poems. Selections. English] | Endarkenment: selected poems / Arkadii Dragomoshchenko; edited by Eugene Ostashevsky; translated by Lyn Hejinian, Genya Turovskaya, Eugene Ostashevsky, Bela Shayevich, Jacob Edmond, and Elena Balashova; foreword by Lyn Hejinian. | pages; cm.—(Wesleyan poetry series) | Includes bibliographical references. | isbn 978-0-8195-7392-6 (cloth: alk. paper)—isbn 978-0-8195-7393-3 (ebook) | I. Ostashevsky, Eugene, editor of compilation, translator. II. Hejinian, Lyn, translator, writer of added commentary. III. Turovskaya, Genya, translator. IV. Shayevich, Bela, translator. V. Balashova, Elena, translator. VI. Edmond, Jacob, translator. VII. Title. VIII. Series: Wesleyan poetry. pg3479.6.r28A2 2014 | 891.71′44—dc23 | 2013028428 5 4 3 2 1 "Cover illustration: Self-portrait by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko." ...