@bdralyuk.bsky.social
My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialMy little reading of the Catullus translation at the center of Anne Carson’s NOX, published in a long defunct journal. Hail, conquering Carson!
@enchantrasand.bsky.socialReposted by @bdralyuk.bsky.social💙📚 #Books #poetry #Translation Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood
Alexander Voloshin with Boris Dralyuk (Translator)
98 pages • paperback
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialThe marvelous Matt Reeck sees in Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED precisely what I had hoped readers would see, “an essential American story.” (And he seems to approve of my versifying, too.) My thanks to him and to @ronslate.bsky.social of ON THE SEAWALL!
@nimrodjournal.bsky.socialReposted by @bdralyuk.bsky.socialReach for your tools of the trade! We’re open for business.
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialIn the latest @thetls.bsky.social, I review Iya Kiva’s uncompromising collection “Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters,” translated from Russian and Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk @huribooks.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/literature/p...
@theatlantic.comReposted by @bdralyuk.bsky.social"It’s not our place to ponder the true worth / of fragile imitations, fortune’s gifts for / ladies of noble taste and common birth. Read “Facing the Music,” a poem by Boris Dralyuk:
@dorimoody.bsky.socialReposted by @bdralyuk.bsky.socialLoved following the one-eared Samson in and out of bathhouses on the trail of black caviar in 1919 Kyiv.
Thank you @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social for review, and @bdralyuk.bsky.social for the translation!
And Andrey Kurkov for creating a wonderful series.
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@bdralyuk.bsky.socialThank you again, Dori!
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialCome one, come all!
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialI deeply appreciate your kind words and beautiful wish for a musical setting. May it be granted by some gifted reader down the road…
@jenniferlcroft.bsky.socialReposted by @bdralyuk.bsky.socialI was thrilled by the reviews of my last book--so many were works of art in their own right! Not Kirkus. "Cheap sleep aid, non-habit-forming,"* they wrote--and that was the kindest part! BUT check out Kirkus on my new book! We are friends again! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialThank you, dear friend!
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialThank you very much, dear Lena.
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialThank you!
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialOh, dear, that is the highest possible praise…
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialA little elegy for my aunt from the October issue of @theatlantic.com. I am immensely grateful to Walt Hunter for giving it space on the shelf.
@ocreviewofbooks.bsky.socialReposted by @bdralyuk.bsky.social“A seam of memorable statements runs through this book, and Voloshin mines it with gusto.”
Eric Bies reviews Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED: EXILE IN HOLLYWOOD, recently rescued via
@bdralyuk.bsky.social’s translation.
@pauldrybooks.bsky.social
@bdralyuk.bsky.social@bdralyuk.bsky.socialAn autumnal ballad-sonnet hybrid for Edna St. Vincent Millay, a master of both forms. I thank Ken Gordon of THE SONNETEER for giving my poem a little plot in the sun.
@bdralyuk.bsky.socialA little story about two fine, forgotten poets: borisdralyuk.substack.com/p/a-strange-...
