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Nikolai Gumilev, "In the Persian Manner" // Николай Гумилёв, «Подражанье персидскому», 1919

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Marina Tsvetaeva, "Dis-tance: versts, miles...", March 24th, 1925 / Марина Цветаева, «Рас — стояние: вёрсты, мили…», 24 марта 1925

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I debated with myself about whether I should post this translation or not. When I finished it but had not yet edited it, I found out that a brilliant translation by Andrey Kneller already exists—and not only that, but quite a few of our translation choices were coincidentally identical on the lexical level.

Nevertheless, I feel like I prioritized Tsvetaeva's rhythm (although I couldn't imitate it perfectly) and the musicality of it—the staccato of a horse's hoofs, of a train roaring at full-speed, of telegraph signals traveling through the wires, the trap-slamming-shut rhymes—whereas Kneller prioritized the semantics. This is why I felt my translation is meaningfully different and can exist alongside his interpretation. Attaching his version—please enjoy.

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Marina Tsvetaeva, "Dis-tance: versts, miles...", March 24th, 1925 / Марина Цветаева, «Рас — стояние: вёрсты, мили…», 24 марта 1925

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And Yet (А всё-таки), Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914

Marina Tsvetaeva, "Your Name", from "Poems to Blok" / Марина Цветаева, «Имя твоё...», из сборника «Стихи к Блоку», 1916

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Vladimir Navrotsky, "The Classification Yard" / Владимир Навроцкий, «Сортировочная», 2019

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Grigori Dashevsky, "The Rug" / Григорий Дашевский, «Ковёр», 1996

Translated by The Chicago Translation Workshop (Sasha Spektor, Daniil Cherkassky, and Anton Tenser) for The Brooklyn Rail

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Grigori Dashevsky, "The Martians" / Григорий Дашевский, «Марсиане», 2004

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"The Classification of Kisses" by an anonymous Russian-speaking author active on Telegram and Twitter // «Классификация поцелуев», анонимный автор (телеграм, твиттер), 2023

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Nikolai Gumilev, "An Elephant Calf" // Николай Гумилёв, «Слонёнок», 1920

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