{"id":304016,"date":"2016-04-07T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/04\/07\/a-science-not-for-the-earth-by-yevgeny-baratynsky-why-this-book-should-win\/"},"modified":"2018-05-04T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:53:17","slug":"a-science-not-for-the-earth-by-yevgeny-baratynsky-why-this-book-should-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/04\/07\/a-science-not-for-the-earth-by-yevgeny-baratynsky-why-this-book-should-win\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Science Not for the Earth&#8221; by Yevgeny Baratynsky [Why This Book Should Win]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This entry in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/tag\/why-this-book-should-win\/\">Why This Book Should Win<\/a> series is by Jarrod Annis, <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span> judge and bookseller at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlightbookstore.com\/\">Greenlight Books,<\/a> We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uglyducklingpresse.org\/catalog\/browse\/item\/?pubID=260\"><em>A Science Not for the Earth: Selected Poems and Letters<\/em><\/a> by Yevgeny Baratynsky, translated from the Russian by Rawley Grau (Russia, Ugly Duckling Presse)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This book is a beast\u2014it is a hefty, beautiful bulk that constitutes one of Ugly Duckling Presse\u2019s biggest translation endeavors to date. The stately volume is justified by the work it contains\u2014the most substantial selection of Yevgeny Baratynsky\u2019s poetry to be available in English. Readers are also treated to a selection of letters and detailed notes, all compounding into a detailed portrait of a unique poet who was lauded by Pushkin, his great contemporary, and had a key influence on Russian modernists such as Akhmatovah and Mandelstam.<\/p>\n<p>Reading <em>A Science Not For the Earth<\/em>, it\u2019s hard not to feel a sense of disbelief at not having encountered the work before\u2014how could it have slipped through the cracks? This surprise is perhaps due to Rawley Grau\u2019s crisp translations, which render these nineteenth century gems in a language that feels contemporary and lively, despite beyond their nearly two-hundred years, while still honoring Baratynsky\u2019s original forms. This is poetry that transcends ages, poetry which is not through speaking. As Baratynsky writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But why talk now of ancient times?<br \/>\nThe poem is ready. Very likely,<br \/>\nas a register of who I am<br \/>\nyou\u2019ll soon find it will come in handy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be put off by the size of this collection\u2014we have Rawley Grau and Ugly Duckling Press to thank for a volume of poetry as fresh and elegant as the work it contains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This entry in the Why This Book Should Win series is by Jarrod Annis, BTBA judge and bookseller at Greenlight Books, We will be running two (or more!) of these posts every business day leading up to the announcement of the finalists. &nbsp; A Science Not for the Earth: Selected Poems and Letters by Yevgeny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67476],"tags":[18416,35996,61536,49386,63546,63526,28616,37876,63536],"class_list":["post-304016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-best-translated-book-award","tag-btba","tag-btba-2016","tag-btba-poetry","tag-rawley-grau","tag-science-not-for-the-earth","tag-ugly-duckling-presse","tag-why-this-book-should-win","tag-yevgeny-baratynsky"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397072,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304016\/revisions\/397072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}