Research Catalog

Title

Into the arms of Pushkin : poems of St. Petersburg / Carol V. Davis.

Author

Davis, Carol V.

Publication

Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

86 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

New odyssey series

Uniform Title

New odyssey series.

Note

• Winner of the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Contents

The First Nights in St. Petersburg -- Living in Another Language I (Winter) -- Dreaming of Vegetables -- Light -- Need -- In Translation -- Jars of Pickles, Jars of Beets -- The Hours Between Hours -- For the Man Who Is Not My Lover -- Day Trip to Novgorod -- If Now As I Wait for Your Call -- Language -- The Fisherman and the Golden Fish -- Buying Seeds in the Snow -- Phone Line -- Living in Another Language II (Summer) -- The Violin Teacher -- The Violin Teacher Comes for a Lesson -- The Violin Teacher Gives a Lesson in How to Sing -- The Violin Teacher Plays Bach -- The Violin Teacher Imagines -- The Violin Teacher in Rehearsal -- The Violin Teacher Plays with His Orchestra -- The Violin Teacher on Tour: Russia to Italy -- The Violin Teacher Returns Empty-Handed -- The Violin Teacher Conducts Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony -- Cleaning the Graves: Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery -- The Summer Gardens -- The Prison of Crosses -- Teaching Holocaust Literature and Living Across From the Prison of Crosses -- The Exotic: What the Locals Eat -- Crowded Prison Turns to Tourism to Fill Coffers -- The Honey Sirens of Kuznetchny Market -- Choral Synagogue I -- Choral Synagogue II -- Stravinsky Revisits Oranienbaum -- Fairy Tale -- The Poplars of St Petersburg -- Birding -- Naming -- Needle Arts -- Salt -- The New Russia -- Are You Ever Going Back to Russia.

ISBN

• 9781931112703 (alk. paper)
• 1931112703 (alk. paper)
• 9781931112710 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1931112711 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007022057

OCLC

• ocn144328238
• ocm144328238
• 144328238
• SCSB-5375444

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries