The eyes of the beetle

• Let's start with the Star (No. 9, 2013), offering the reader of the essay Vasil Makhno about Joseph Brodsky “Venice Leo” : “You can agree with the thought of Irene Grudzinskaya-Gross, who believes that Brodsky was born and raised in one empire (USSR), lived in another (America) and found eternal peace in the third (Roman). This does not cancel the fact that Brodsky could have sympathized with the former imperial outskirts-Poland or Lithuania, while others could not be perceived; Say, in our case - Ukraine. " “Foreign Notes” (No. 21, 2013) publish an Alexei Tsvetkov selection: “When a guard fired at the sound / when my train drove under the table / there in Kuntsev where the intersection of fear / blamed the dachs // on pipe merciful merciful / beat paralysis. lie down. " In October (No. 8, 2013) - a poem (or maybe a short poem) Dmitry Danilov “Dnepropetrovsk” . In the same issue is the memoirs of Vasily Aksenov , including about sixties, and fragments of his correspondence with his parents-Pavel Aksenov and Evgenia Ginzburg. Andrei Rodionov represents four Tyumen poets , including Vladimir Bogomyakov. In the critical part, Alexei Salomatin writes about the Russian Rock Poemia of the 2000s .

• In the “New Youth” (No. 4 (115), 2013) - Igor Belavin’s essay “The Art of Translation, or the Justified Pasternak” , and in the poetic part - the verses of Vera Kothelevskaya : “You will see: in the courtyard, a car mechanic / crawls under the wounded“ six ”, / more and a little more - and all these children's / films will go. / And because there will be an ocean / lick sneakers in an early run / (and what does the film “Svema” remember there? / Remember everything). ” “Friendship of Peoples” (No. 9, 2013) publishes poems by Yuri Ryashentsev and Larisa Miller . Here - the text of Vladimir Moshchenko about Mezhirov "The Cated A Drive of Tears." “Questions of literature” (No. 4, 2013) offer the reader to the article of Galina Temnenko ““ Unstiled mouth ”. To the problem of objective/non -wealthy reading of Akhmatov texts, ” is a critical analysis of another article,“ “and everywhere slander ...”: Akhmatova, (according to) readers, Ahmatoveda ”for the authorship of Lada Panova, published in the journal “ Russian Literature ” .

• A new issue of Textonly magazine (No. 39, 2013) was released with verses of Yuri Leving , Alexander Barash , Ruslan Komadei , Ily Rissenberg , Semyon Khanin , Alexei Chipigi , Alexander Tsibuli and Irina Shostakovskaya : “Forgotten language. In a glass of good wine. / Outside the window is a wasteland. How wine will flow through the veins, / So fire will flare up in the fireplace. He will make the strings / musician, but will not remember the poems. / This country does not know other gods, / This is Nero's language. In the jug splashes / clean, with him the detachment sits without pants / and, without hesitation, drinks. On the way, a liquid Rome Jesus is dragging, and a cohort of four is tangibly near, and the clearing behind it is dusting. / There, behind, the francs, not the Germans, / Emperor's day, Nazon will dream of Nazon at night. / Barley vodka is coming, / but what will happen to you. ” In the critical part, Sergey Stepantsov is taking an extremely detailed analysis of the poem “Women's Figure” from O. Sedakova’s book “Steels and Inscriptions”, and in the translation section there are Antonella Anedda (translated by Galina Zalokina), Nene Giorgadze (translated by Inna Kulishova) and “Malatest Songs” by Ezra Pound (translated by Yana Probstein). In addition, in the same issue, Elena Fanailova represents a wonderful selection of Konstantin Shavlovsky : “They communicate instead of birds / votes from dead persons / that I need to listen / without removing the mittens // only your hands will get out of the door / waves their wings and cry / no longer inside”.

“Since the time of Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem in the left movement, in my opinion, little has changed.”

• Significantly updated over the past time “Halmotons”. For example, Sergey Zhadan in an interview answers the question of whether the modern literature needs a new utopia: “In principle, I agree - the reader probably always wants to get the answer to the question“ what to do ”. It just seems to me that after four evangelists, Marx and Kropotkin, there is no much sense to pose any other questions. Since the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the left movement, in my opinion, little has changed. ” In addition, the verses of Pavel Finogenov , Asi Engel ( once , two ), Yegor Mirny , the great poem by Dmitry Kolchigin , the cycle “Forty Poems” by Kirill Shirokov , the selection of Alexei Kostylev , one poem by Igor Bobyrev , the new book of Natalia Chernyy “Italian Opera” and Igor Gulin’s “Five Development” were published. : “Bring guilty / crackle / bakingions / I want to look into the joint / I want to look / through the eyes of the beetle / new sen reaches of the apartments / How we are furious thin / diverge / into fragments of bones / into skin areas.” Here are the new texts of Vasily Borodin , Boris Kherson and Timofei Dunchenko : “All parts will stand in a scattering behind her. Sunneck / slopes like a cozy saddle. // Read the last typo will tell me / clearly. You will deceive your own / retina - a blow from the outside. // Any, any, any, any. // burns, burns, of course. " The book “Sunny blow: Modern Kaliningrad Literature” was posted on the “Highways”, in which, among other things, the verses of Pavel Nastin, Igor Belov and Irina Maksimova are published.

• Separate publications. Danila Davydov draws the attention of the reading public to the verses of Vera Voinova , the website “Quirkulture in Russia” publishes the verses of Sergei Fininogin and Pyotr Razumov , as well as Alexander Mironov with the preface of Denis Larionov.

• During the terrorist attack, arranged by the Somali radical group in the largest Nirobi shopping center on September 21, one of the most famous poets of Africa, Kofi Avunor, died. The seventy -eight -year -old Avanor lived in Ghana and, among other things, often performed the duties of a diplomat, representing Ganu at the UN or in other countries - however, in Nairobi he came to the literary festival. In Russian, of course, his poems are not translated, several texts in English- here .

• A certain number of links. Roman Osminkin talks with Boris Kupriyanov, is called “The conversation of the left book seller with the poet” ; The Cultural Initiative website informs that the Moscow Observer award has begun the formation of a long list; Kirill Korchagin on the website of the Translation Institute talks about the Slovenian poetic festival Pranger ; Oleg Yuryev in the October issue of Lehaim writes about Tikhon Churilin; Within the framework of the new RIA Novosti project, Dmitry Volchek gives Gleb Morev an interview about the journal "Glasnity"; In Tarusa, a monument to Bella Akhmadulina was opened , and in St. Petersburg they are going to erect a monument to Olga Bergholz.

• Well, finally, the video. Improvisations of the poet Sergei Solovyov and the ER group. J. Orchestra “Her Names” , Speech by Natalia Gorbanevskaya in Pskov on September 12 and the program “Aloud” with the participation of Kirill Kovalji, Nikolai Baytov, Natalia Polyakova and Andrei Egorov: