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Martin Bidney - The Be-Loving Imaginer Episode 32 - Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet, A. Tolstoy
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Podcast Synopsis:
The Be-loving Imaginer Episode 32:
Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet, A. Tolstoy
This video podcast presentation for Binghamton University Lyceum, via Zoom,
focuses on my new genre of poetry writing, the “Verse Interview Book.” From the
section called “Russian Loves” in my book Six Dialogic Poetry Chapbooks,
available from Amazon, I’ve selected verse interviews with four classic Russian
poets: Pushkin, Lermontov, Fet, A. Tolstoy. Here’s my procedure: I’ll read a poem
in Russian, then act out my translation, then perform my “reply,” playing the role
as “interviewer” responding to what the interviewee just said, and using the rhythm
and rhyme pattern and stanza shape that he taught me.
Pushkin poems will be “Cloud,” “Prisoner,” “Raven.”
Lermontov poems will be “Angel,” “Clouds,” “Sail.”
Fet poems will be “Bees,” “In the quiet of the night,” “Grizzle-bearded high
priest,” “Nothingness,” “The winter night has power”
A. Tolstoy poem will be “In the west pallid sunrays were dying.”
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