A Life Replaced Quotes

“I want you in ridiculous Russian,

I want you, dressed only in that little expression,
which you made so sparklingly literal,
and which is just soundsplash to you.

...

We are even: we made for each other

this language, without translation.”
― Olga Livshin, A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman

“Old news: Russia is carnivorous.---New news: now carnivorous beyond its borders.

Sort-of-new news: this country never stopped being carnivorous.---America's eye, more technologically avian, looks into every home.---News: we might need a different word than home.”
― Olga Livshin, A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman

“It is summer everywhere, except war.
War, where it used to be home,
and now, war by government, here.”
― Olga Livshin, A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman