Happy to report that another poem by Russian Buryat poet Amarsanaa Ulzytuev (Амарсана Улзытуев) has been accepted for publication in 2015 in Asymptote (asymptotejournal/search.php?q=Alex%20Cigale). Our thanks to poetry editor Aditi Machado. Two others by Amarsana are in the current issue of worldliteraturetoday.org/2014/september/two-poems-amarsana-ulzytuev, and also in the previous, May issue of World Literature Today, in plumepoetry/tag/amansara-ulzytuev-trans-by-alex-cigale/, and forthcoming in Haydens Ferry Review. Here are the middle two stanzas of the poem, Bathing the Elephant. In his wake, on the ancient shore, the handler screaming something To the woman tourist who tarried, to get off the elephant – she’s from Russia, Or was it planned this way, with thrilled howl, sitting atop the mighty hillock, Having swallowed silt and the Biblical waters, to have to dive down. The handler’s a simple man, the word-image of the universe, I understood the gargantuan meaning of the elephant – May you be rinsed in the sun-brimming waters, you ancient mighty word, Russia, For the way back is not a short one.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:15:02 +0000
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