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Moonstone Present: Olga Livshin

October 24, 2019 @ 6:30 pm

Original poetry by the Russian-American poet Olga Livshin, alongside her translations of Russian poetry by Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) and Vladimir Gandelsman (b. 1948). Foreword by Ilya Kaminsky.

Olga Livshin has braided her own poems with her superb translations of Akhmatova and Gandelsman, poets she describes as “ecstatic voices.” Livshin’s voice, too, is ecstatic–and unflinching, and loving, and full of earned wisdom. In poem after poem, Livshin, who immigrated to the US from Russia as a child, acknowledges the two Americas she knows firsthand: the one that fears and demonizes, and the one that welcomes. A Life Replaced is astonishingly beautiful, intelligent, and important.” Maggie Smith

 

 

-Charles S. Carr, Host

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Date:
October 24, 2019
Time:
6:30 pm
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Moonstone Arts Center
Phone
215-735-9600
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Venue

Shakespeare and Co.
1632 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103 United States
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