To celebrate the unofficial World Cats' Day here is Cancion Novisima de los Gatos by Federico Garcia Lorca, with a recital in Spanish....
Ryōan-ji rock garden (Wikipedia) Nabi Khazri (Nabi Alekper ogly Babaev) is the national poet of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The poem that I translated into English was rendered into Russian by Anatoly...
And So I Write My Life, a poetry collection by Julia Shuvalova, features original poetry in English and translations from Russian....
Die Worte des Engels Du bist nicht näher an Gott als wir; wir sind ihm alle weit. Aber wunderbar sind dir die Hände benedeit. So reifen sie bei keiner Frau, so schimmernd aus dem Saum: ich bin der Tag...
Tichborne's Elegy a well-known poem by a 28-year-old Tudor guy on the eve of his execution for taking part in conspiracy against Elizabeth I...
An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower, A farmhouse that is sheltered by its wall, An acre of stony ground, Where the symbolic rose can break in flower, Old ragged elms, old thorns innumerable, T...
I much prefer the films like The Last Temptation of Christ (dir. Martin Scorsese) and The Passions of Christ (dir. Mel Gibson) for the simple fact: they divert our attention to the life of a man, rath...
Иногда чувствую себя Петраркой: однажды ему так надоело разбирать свой архив, что он все бросил в огонь. Это напоминает, как мы иногда поступаем с накопившейся почтой: удаляем, и все! Но вот камина у ...
She rested by the Broken Brook, She drank of Weary Well, She moved beyond my lingering look, Ah, whither none can tell! She came, she went. In other lands, Perchance in fairer skies, Her hands shall c...
It was absolutely normal for me to read “beyond my age”, so to say. When I was seven, I read Oscar Wilde’s tales, Voynich’s Gadfly, and the ancient myths. The book in Russian t...
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