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Poetry is freedom of spirit, flight, imagination. There are always sparks of the Divine in good poetry. When you read real poetry, you not only feel it, but also see it – in fact, you are in the cinema, where there is only one spectator, and this spectator is you, the reader!
Alexander Korotko
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“Alarmous sorrow of fogs…”
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Alarmous sorrow
of fogs
hides from hellish,
stranger’s eyes
the museum
of our waxen
faces.
What a pity
that at this time
we lack words,
we lack phrases.
Every nation has
its own Colosseum.
No offense.
Let’s set out,
you and I, on a journey.
Everything is near,
everything begins
beyond the garden
of stars:
ghost towns,
fragile statuettes
of days (all shattered).
And no visas
are needed.
Why do you hesitate?
Toss the coins,
I see you don’t want
to return here.
But that’s no sorrow.
That’s why we are here.
And what remains with us
are not the monuments
of dreams,
but icebergs
of unmelting from the pain
Tears.
Translated by Natalia Ogienko
30.11.2024
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Apprentice. Book about creators (Подмастерье. Книга о творцах)
A collection of poetry by Alexander Korotko, dedicated to great creators: from Pushkin and Lermontov to Picasso and Magritte, from Kafka and Freud to Vysotsky and Nureyev. The collection also includes the poem "Paris"...
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The Mausoleum of the Memory (Памяти Мавзолей)
A collection of philosophical and psychological poems by Alexander Korotko about the terrible pages of our history (the Gulag, the Holocaust)...
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Книга «Moon Boy» / «Лунный мальчик» в переводе на английский язык
How many remarkable lives there are within us. I went to meet the nocturnal guest. I don't know why, but at the very moment when I opened the door, I felt such warmth and tenderness, felt...
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Книга «Ragazzo di luna» / «Лунный мальчик» в переводе на итальянский
Korotko si riferisce alla demenza del tempo in modo trascendente, mentre l’intelligenza e la coscienza sono il frutto di uno sforzo che è necessario compiere: bisogna interrompere il...
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Irrazionalismo
Alexander Korotko is a Russian-language Ukrainian poet from Kyiv. Born in Korosten, Ukraine, he studied economics at Odessa University. His first collection, "Window", was published in 1989. Since then he has published more...
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Stus, Kindle Edition
A Narrative Poem by poet and writer Alexander Korotko. Tragic story of Ukrainian dissident poet Vasyl Stus, who died in Soviet forced labor camp....
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Joseph and Jacob, Kindle Edition
A Narrative Poem by poet and writer Alexander Korotko. This poem tells about the dramatic events that occurred in ancient times in Egypt with Joseph, his brothers, and their father Jacob....
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Abraham and Isaac, Kindle Edition
A Long Poem by poet and writer Alexander Korotko. Biblical story of the righteous Abraham, who was ready to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac at the behest of God...
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Bera and Cucumber, Kindle Edition
Tales, short stories and essays - Alexander Korotko's prose of the latter decade in a new book with an intriguing title. The action takes place in the Ukrainian city Odessa, where the author spent his childhood and youth. Non-standard plot, elements of ...
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Very occasionally a unique new voice in poetry rises above the clamouring crowd to command attention. Informed by a very different culture, language and environment from his Anglophone audience, Korotko’s short, sharp observations of life around him are far from the easiest to translate...
Hillary Shears, translator and poet. December 2019, London