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Three Letters from the City: The St. Petersburg Poems, 1968-98
Three Letters from the City The St Petersburg Poems 196898 Author:Nathaniel Tarn Poetry. Translation by Julia Kunina. Nathaniel Tarn is an American poet, translator, critic, and editor. He has travelled in Russia in 1968 and 1995 and twice in 1998. "Speaking the language/ of lineages ago/ language of exile/ no longer recognized:/ is this our language?/ It is, it IS the language,/ but it has grown to wood, / it misses the wor... more »d "soul,"/ and everything dries up/ around that absence" -- from The Names Return. Other titles by Nathaniel Tarn from SPD include I THINK THIS MAY BE EDEN, SCANDALS IN THE HOUSE OF BIRDS and MICROCOSM.« less