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The Two-Headed Man and the Paper Life
Anatoly Kudryavitsky's newest collection of prose poetry straddles the divide between the divine and the divined, between mythology and the mythic. Praised by Joseph Brodky and Dennis O'Driscoll, Kudryavitsky's narratives capture both the continental and the distinctly occidental--somewhere in history 'while walking through life's jungles.' A sublime collection with a wry sense of humor to boot.
Disunity
The two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the first novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky writes about life in modern-day Moscow and about an emigrant's life in Germany. The chapters of this multi-layered novel form a narrative mosaic of episodes set in both real and surreal worlds. The novel deals with problems of self-identification, national identity and the crises of the generation of "new Europeans." In the second novel, A Parade of Mirrors and Reflection, the writer turns his attention to human cloning, an issue very much at the centre of current scientific debate. In this novel, he looks at the philosophical aspects of creating artificial personalities who lack emotions and experience of everyday human life through a story about secret cloning experiments being carried out in an underground laboratory on the outskirts of Moscow.
Stowaway
Anatoly Kudryavitsky is a Moscow-born Irish experimental poet, the grandson of an Irishman who ended up in Stalin's GULAG. He lives in Dublin, Ireland. His collection of poems, "Shadow of Time" was published by Goldsmith Press in 2005, followed by three collections of his haiku, the latest being "Horizon" (Red Moon Press, 2016). Two of his novels, "disUNITY" (2014) and "The Flying Dutchman" (2018) have been published in the UK by Glagoslav. He has also edited and translated into English anthologies of contemporary German, Ukrainian and Russian poetry, "Coloured Handprints" (Dedalus, 2015), "The Frontier" (Glagoslav, 2017) and "Mirror Sand" (Glagoslav, 2018), and edited two anthologies of Irish haiku. He won the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize (2003), and the Mihai Eminescu Academy Award for poetry (2017), and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize by the American Journal of Poetry and Shot Glass Journal.
The Flying Dutchman
Some time in the 1970s, Konstantin Alpheyev, a well-known Russian musicologist, finds himself in trouble with the KGB, the Russian secret police, after the death of his girlfriend, for which one of their officers may have been responsible. He has to flee from the city and to go into hiding. He rents an old house located on the bank of a big Russian river, and lives there like a recluse observing nature and working on his new book about Wagner. The house, a part of an old barge, undergoes strange metamorphoses rebuilding itself as a medieval schooner, and Alpheyev begins to identify himself with the Flying Dutchman. Meanwhile, the police locate his new whereabouts and put him under surveillance. A chain of strange events in the nearby village makes the police officer contact the KGB, and the latter figure out who the new tenant of the old house actually is.
Dream. After Dream
'Dream. After Dream' is a semi-documentary novella by the Moscow-born and Dublin-based poet and novelist Anatoly Kudryavitsky. An Irishman from Mayo takes an interest in Communist ideas and in 1921 moves to Russia. In 1940, the year the USSR signs the treaty with Nazi Germany, all the Irishmen living in Russia are arrested, imprisoned and soon die in the GULAG, except for the hero of the novella who survives and makes an attempt to return to Ireland. Also included in the book are two of the author's shorter novellas, a short story and a selection of his acclaimed prose poems.
Message-door
Edited, translated and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this bilingual anthology presents eight contemporary Russian surrealist and experimental poets: Sergey Biryukov, Anna Glazova, Tatyana Grauz, Dmitry Grigoriev, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Yuri Milorava, Sasha Moroz, and Sergey Tenyatnikov. It displays a variety of works by these authors who all come from different backgrounds but have a similar approach to exploring the possibilities of a surreal transformation of reality, even though each of them does it in their own way. Their works have enriched the Russian language to a great extent.
Mirror Sand
Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this bilingual anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. It showcases thirty poets from Russia, and displays a variety of works by authors who all come from different backgrounds. Some of them are well-known not only locally but also internationally due to festival appearances and translations into European languages; among them are Gennady Aigi, Gennady Alexeyev, Vladimir Aristov, Sergey Biryukov, Konstantin Kedrov, Igor Kholin, Viktor Krivulin, Vsevolod Nekrasov, Genrikh Sapgir, and Sergey Stratanovsky. The next Russian poetic generation also features prominently in the collection. Such poets as Tatyana Grauz, Dmitri Grigoriev, Alexander Makarov-Krotkov, Yuri Milorava, Asya Shneiderman and Alina Vitukhnovskaya are the ones Russians like to read today. This anthology shows Russia looking back at itself, and reveals the post-World-War Russian reality from the perspective of some of the best Russian creative minds. Here we find a poetry of dissent and of quiet observation, of fierce emotions, and of deep inner thoughts.
The Frontier
This anthology reflects a search of the Ukrainian nation for its identity, the roots of which lie deep inside Ukrainian-language poetry. Some of the included poets are well-known locally and internationally; among them are Serhiy Zhadan, Halyna Kruk, Ostap Slyvynsky, Marianna Kijanowska, Oleh Kotsarev, Anna Bagriana and, of course, the living legend of Ukrainian poetry, Vasyl Holoborodko. The next Ukrainian poetic generation also features prominently in the collection. Such poets as Les Beley, Olena Herasymyuk, Myroslav Laiuk, Hanna Malihon, Taras Malkovych, Julia Musakovska, Julia Stakhivska and Lyuba Yakimchuk are the ones Ukrainians like to read today, and each of them already has an excellent reputation abroad due to festival appearances and translations to European languages. The work collected here documents poetry in Ukraine responding to challenges of the time by forging a radical new poetic, reconsidering writing techniques and language itself. Edited and translated from the Ukrainian by Anatoly Kudryavitsky.
disUNITY
The two novels included in this book are works of Russian magic realism. In the first novel, Shadowplay on a Sunless Day, Anatoly Kudryavitsky writes about life in modern-day Moscow and about an emigrant’s life in Germany. The novel deals with problems of self-identification, national identity and the crises of the generation of “new Europeans”. In the second novel, A Parade of Mirrors and Reflection, the writer turns his attention to human cloning, an issue very much at the centre of current scientific debate. He looks at the philosophical aspects of creating artificial personalities who lack emotions and experience of everyday human life through a story about secret cloning experiments being carried out in an underground laboratory on the outskirts of Moscow. Most of the clones find themselves in Grodno, Belarus, a city that, due to its geographical location, has always been an important crossroads in Eastern Europe. Each clone is a featureless person looking for their own identity; however, only one of them has a chance to succeed.
Seeds of Gravity
This anthology showcases seven surrealist-minded poets from Ireland: Tony Bailie, Matthew Geden, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Afric McGlinchey, Tim Murphy, Ciaran O'Driscoll, and John W. Sexton. They all come from different backgrounds; what they have in common is their keenness to reveal the surreal aspects of everyday life. This anthology shows Ireland looking at itself, and reveals contemporary Irish reality from the perspective of some of the country's best creative minds. This collection of poems offers different approaches to poetry writing as part of a new poetics of Ireland and Irish life.
