Poems

1 hr. 7 min.

Poetry

Language Russian

Author Osip Mandelstam

Narrator Vera Pavlova

Description

Actors read poetry differently from poets. An actor always works with vocal interpretation of the material, while from the poet’s point of view, the poems should “read themselves.” That is the main difference of the anthology of the “Big Four” of the Silver Age, compiled and read by Vera Pavlova, one of the leading poetesses of our time.

Contents:

01. “Only read children’s books…”
02. “Inexpressible sadness…”
03. “Like horses step slowly…”
04. Notre Dame
05. To Gumilyov
06. Bach
07. Cinema
08. “There are orioles in the forests…”
09. “Insomnia, Homer, tight sails…”
10. “I won’t see the famous ‘Phaedra’…”
11. A straw
12. “The stream of golden honey…”
13. The Decembrist
14. Dusk of freedom
15. “Sisters—weight and tenderness…”
16. “I forgot the word I wanted to say…”
17. “Take, for joy, from my hands…”
18. “For I couldn’t hold your hands…”
19. “I am on a par with others…”
20. Feodosiya
21. A concert at the station
22. “For winter — dates and punch with blue eyes…”
23. A little rain of Moscow
24. “Life fell like a flash of fire…”
25. Cycle “Armenia” (“You asked for colors for yourself…”)
26. Cycle “Armenia” (“Ah, I can see nothing, and the poor ear has gone deaf…”)
27. Leningrad
28. “With the world of sovereigns I was…”
29. “For thunderous valor of the centuries to come…”
30. “I enter with a smoking brand…”
31. “Enough of sulking!..”
32. Lamarck
33. “The apartment is quiet as paper…”
34. “And Schubert on the water…”
35. “A mistress of guilty looks…”
36. Cutting hair for children
37. “Armed with narrow-eyed wasp vision…”
38. “Can a woman be praised when dead?”
39. “Bowing unwillingly to the empty earth…”
40. Excerpt from chapter five of the story “The Egyptian Mark” I
41. Excerpt from chapter five of the story “The Egyptian Mark” II
42. Afterword. Petr Vayl