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Re: Tsvetaeva (fwd)
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EDITOR's NOTE. Gennady Barabtarlo <gragb@showme.missouri.edu> offers a
translation and comment on the VN "Tsvetaeva" poem. NABOKV-L wishes to
thank Galya Diment (USA), Bernard Kreise (France), Sasha Dolinin (USA &
Russia), Sergey Il'yn (Moscow) and Gene Barabtarlo (USA) for their
responses to Ulrike Goldschweer's (Germany) query.
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Iosif krasnyi, -- ne Iosif
Prekrasnyi: prepre-
Krasnyi -- vzgliad brosiv,
Sad vyrastivshii! Vepr'
gornyi! *Vyshe* gor! Luchshe sta Lin-
dbergov, trekhsot poliusov
svetlei! Iz-pod tolstykh usov
Solntse Rossii: Stalin!
[Joseph the Red, -- not Joseph
the Fair: most fair, fair-
est of all -- with one gaze cast
Planting orchards! Boar mount -
ainous! Towering over mounts! Better than a five-score of Lin-
dbergs, brighter than fifteen-score
of poles! The sun of Russia, from under
Thick moustaches: Stalin!
See a reportr on a most curious recent incident round this little gem,
remindful of the famous Vasili Shishkov hoax -- "Zvezda", 11, 1996,
p. 150ff.
Gennady Barabtarlo
451 GCB University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-9454 Fax 573-884-8456
translation and comment on the VN "Tsvetaeva" poem. NABOKV-L wishes to
thank Galya Diment (USA), Bernard Kreise (France), Sasha Dolinin (USA &
Russia), Sergey Il'yn (Moscow) and Gene Barabtarlo (USA) for their
responses to Ulrike Goldschweer's (Germany) query.
-----------------------------------------
Iosif krasnyi, -- ne Iosif
Prekrasnyi: prepre-
Krasnyi -- vzgliad brosiv,
Sad vyrastivshii! Vepr'
gornyi! *Vyshe* gor! Luchshe sta Lin-
dbergov, trekhsot poliusov
svetlei! Iz-pod tolstykh usov
Solntse Rossii: Stalin!
[Joseph the Red, -- not Joseph
the Fair: most fair, fair-
est of all -- with one gaze cast
Planting orchards! Boar mount -
ainous! Towering over mounts! Better than a five-score of Lin-
dbergs, brighter than fifteen-score
of poles! The sun of Russia, from under
Thick moustaches: Stalin!
See a reportr on a most curious recent incident round this little gem,
remindful of the famous Vasili Shishkov hoax -- "Zvezda", 11, 1996,
p. 150ff.
Gennady Barabtarlo
451 GCB University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-9454 Fax 573-884-8456