Greco- and Romano-Catholic Songs and Nursery Rhymes

40 min.

Poetry

Language Russian

Author Timur Kibirov

Narrator Timur Kibirov

Description

There is no heavy academicism or lofty nonsense in Kibirov’s poems. And even more importantly, this author’s poetry has always existed outside the boundaries of the usual poetic mainstream. Kibirov’s poetry is hard to identify, hard to determine which genre it belongs to. Because Kibirov is—by himself—a genre. An endless universe of everyday life, with that same canonical “small man” at its center—someone who managed to survive and make it through here and now, while keeping his conscience and not losing hope…

Dedicated to Natalya Leonidovna Trauber g

Contents:

01. Look at that—what the Lord is like!
02. SMS Dialogue
03. In blessed dumb astonishment, in golden radiance...
04. From John Shade
05. What’s the point of living? A question—what are you doing, days?..
06. When Pontius Pilate from on high...
07. From Dorothy Sayers
08. I won’t argue, God, You are holy, holy, holy...
09. Oh, what a night, what a moon...
10. The mad man’s river in his heart—is there no god...
11. Ballad
12. Fairy tale
13. With cheek pressed to the father’s overcoat...
14. The Prodigal Son
15. Meant to be
16. The Dog
17. Deserter
18. Technologies, Strategies, and Practices
19. Historiophical cento
20. Icons of ROST
21. Corporate holiday
22. Cigarette smoke curls...
23. Alas! Hip-hip-woe! Hardening hopelessness...
24. Theodicy
25. Little rooster, little rooster...
26. How could we not get angry?!
27. Parable of the unknowability of ways
28. What comes around goes around...
29. New recruit
30. Prayer