Tarkovsky, Arseny: I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems

I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky. Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, paperback) Publication Date: May 15, 2015 Publisher Marketing: "Tarkovsky now joins the ranks of Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Brodsky. Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev's translations—succinct and allusive, stingingly direct and yet sweeping, mournful and celebratory—are marvels."—PEN/Heim citation "How does one translate the work of Russian classic, Arseny Tarkovsky? Imagine trying to translate Yeats: high style rhetoric, intense emotion, local tonalities of language, complicated historical background, the old equation of poet vs. state, the tone of a tender love lyric, all meshed into one, all exquisite in its execution—and all so impossible to render again. And yet, one tries. In the case of Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev, one tries brilliantly, with gusto, with passion, with attentiveness that is akin to that of a