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  • Siberian Shamanism

    The Shanar Ritual of the Buryats

    by Virlana Tkacz ...
    An intimate account of an ancient shamanic ritual of Siberia• Illustrated with vivid, full-color photographs throughout• Details the many preparations and ritual objects as well as the struggles of the shamans to complete the ceremony successfullyNear the radiant blue waters of Lake Baikal, in the lands where Mongolia, Siberia, and China meet, live the Buryats, an indigenous people little known to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • How Fire Descends

    New and Selected Poems

    by Serhiy Zhadan ...
    Translated by Virlana Tkacz, Wanda Phipps ...
    Series series The Margellos World Republic of Letters
    A searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy ZhadanSince the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, the Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan has brought international attention to his country’s struggle through his unflinching poetry of witness. In this searing testament to poetry’s power to define and defy injustice, Zhadan honors the memory of the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Pro Eto - That's What

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    Translated by George Hyde, Larissa Gureyeva ...
    Series series Arc Translations
    Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of the towering literary figures of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia, speaking as much to the working man as to other poets. His fascination with sound and form, linguistic metamorphosis and variation made him a sort of 'poet's poet', the doyen, if not the envy, of his contemporaries, (Pasternak among them). His poetry is strangely akin to modern rock poetry in its ... Read more

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  • Austerity Measures

    The New Greek Poetry

    by Karen Van Dyck ...
    'I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other's hair. We had no sense thatanything else existed'- Elena Penga, 'Heads''Nothing, not even the drowning of a childStops the perpetual motion of the world'- Stamatis Polenakis, 'Elegy'Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling depth and ... Read more

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  • The Book of Riga

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Pauls Bankovskis, Gundega Repse, Dace Ruksane, Sven Kuzmins, Kristine Zelve, Andra Neiburga, Ilze Jansone, Arno Jundze, Juris Zvirgzdins, Vilis Lacitis ...
    Series series Reading the City
    A suicide attempt, staged to attract as much attention as possible, from the top of St. Peter’s Church, quickly evolves into an outlandish and absurd, televised spectacle...When a PA is invited into her boss’s office one day to observe a protest unfold, just as he predicts, in the streets below, she begins to suspect his powers of foresight might extend beyond mere business matters...Finally ... Read more

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  • Kilometer 101

    by Maxim Osipov ...
    Translated by Boris Dralyuk, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Alex Fleming ...
    A new collection of short fiction and nonfiction by a Russian master of bittersweet humor, dramatic irony, and poignant insights into contemporary life.The town of Tarusa lies 101 kilometers outside Moscow, far enough to have served, under Soviet rule, as a place where former political prisoners and other “undesirables” could legally settle. Lying between the center of power and the provinces, ... Read more

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  • Three Streets

    by Yoko Tawada ...
    Translated by Margaret Mitsutani ...
    Series series Storybook ND Series
    Yoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in BerlinThe always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so popular with wealthy young people, a ghost boy begs her to buy him the old ... Read more

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  • Seven Poets, Four Days, One Book

    by Dean Young, Christopher Merrill, Marvin Bell, Tomaz Salamun, Simone Inguanez, Istvan Laszlo Geher, Ksenia Golubovich ...
    Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and lines, which they would borrow to insert in subsequent poems of their own. These rounds continued, ... Read more

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  • Voronezh Notebooks

    by Osip Mandelstam ...
    Translated by Andrew Davis ...
    Osip Mandelstam is one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets and Voronezh Notebooks, a sequence of poems composed between 1935 and 1937 when he was living in internal exile in the Soviet city of Voronezh, is his last and most exploratory work. Meditating on death and survival, on power and poetry, on marriage, madness, friendship, and memory, challenging Stalin between lines that are full of ... Read more

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  • The Frontier: 28 Contemporary Ukrainian Poets

    An Anthology (A Bilingual Edition)

    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 ... Read more

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  • Herstories

    An Anthology Of New Ukrainian Women Prose Writers

    by Michael M. Naydan ...
    Women's prose writing has exploded on the literary scene in Ukraine just prior to and following Ukrainian independence in 1991. Over the past two decades scores of fascinating new women authors have emerged. These authors write in a wide variety of styles and genres including short stories, novels, essays, and new journalism. In the collection you will find: realism, magical realism, surrealism, ... Read more

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