Shards from the Polar Ice : Selected Poems.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Introduction -- A note on the Translation -- Commentary by Konstantin Kedrov -- Selected Poems -- Pity Beethoven -- A Dream in the Garden -- The Polar Day -- The Polac Night -- A life among the stones I took… -- The Crazy Gardener -- How we danced… -- Vivaldi in Venice -- Cedar is my brother. The grass is my sister… -- Wet... -- Will it be our children… -- These are difficult times… -- In the Garden of a Communist -- I'll suit my life, I'll make it trim… -- I flung the door wide… -- White Horse -- My garden… -- Verde que te queiro verde... -- Smash the window… -- Shostakovich -- Rose Petals -- Arctic Ocean -- Arctic Circle -- Byron in Venice -- Oh poor Abyss! -- The neglected Garden -- The Age of Silver -- Kantemir in London -- Once more I had to… -- Flight Analysis -- Words displayed… -- Monument -- Passion for Colours -- I'm stepping through anguish… -- Eternal Subjecte -- All's long been wrong… -- Poet and Muse -- Dreaming -- The lilac by the home of Pasternak… -- The Mad Photographer -- I thank you now… -- Oh, how can we, can we be so daring?… -- 'God save me from losing my mind, I'd rather walk off with a staff and a bag.' -- Oh God in your heaven… -- Michelangelo went to Carrara to choose… -- Raising a Garden -- An Angel Coming -- The Red Sea -- Hexameter -- Waiting Hall -- Sleep in the Sinai Desert -- Sinai -- In the Scriabin Museum -- Gare de Lyon -- Waterloo Bridge -- A Fright -- The white air of the Vatican -- I cannot really say… -- When these lines no longer move… -- What do the two of us need?… -- Here I am! Now you have me… -- It hurts them to stand… -- City on the Camel Rug -- Evening Cats -- The Starry Garden -- Smoke of the Fatherland -- "From above, Paris looks like our aul from Charmoi-lam mountain…" -- A respectable idea entered… -- Weeping for the Empire -- The Palace of Winds.

Well, my friend… -- A Dream -- Welsh Carols -- Freud in London -- Melody -- In memory of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes -- The world is destroyed… -- The Gardens by the Palace -- Lydia Grigorieva: biography.

"It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva," writes eminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her own distinctive and beguiling body of poetry.

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