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Broken Pastries - Vladimir Azarov
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BROKEN PASTRIES
Vladimir Azarov
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Azarov, Vladimir, 1935-, author
Broken pastries / Vladimir Azarov.
Poems.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55096-398-4 (pbk.).-- ISBN 978-1-55096-404-2 (pdf).--
ISBN 978-1-55096-451-6 (epub).--ISBN 978-1-55096-450-9 (mobi)
I. Title.
PS8601.Z37B76 2014 C811'.6 C2014-900186-X / C2014-900187-8
Copyright © Vladimir Azarov, 2014
Cover Illustration copyright © Nina Bunjevac, 2014
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for my friends during the Thaw
Contents
Preface
SONG I ~ EARLY MARCH
SONG II ~ SHE KNOCKS
SONG III ~ ALL OF US IN MOURNFUL ROWS
SONG IV ~ THE THAW
SONG V ~ AFTER GOING TO MY BED
SONG VI ~ LITTLE LAMB
SONG VII ~ INESSA ARMAND
SONG VIII ~ THE INSIDIOUS THAW
SONG IX ~ SHE, PERSISTENT MUSE
SONG X ~ LILI MARLENE
SONG XI ~ SVETLANA
SONG XII ~ ALL OF MY LIBRARY
SONG XIII ~ NORTH STAR
SONG XIV ~ NO
SONG XV ~ YESTERDAY
SONG XVI ~ NIGHT, DARK
SONG XVII ~ I DO NOT BELONG
SONG XVIII ~ I DID NOT SLEEP
SONG XIX ~ I WAS BAPTIZED
SONG XX ~ ELECTRICITY’S POLES
SONG XXI ~ SELF-PORTRAIT THROUGH A MAGNIFYING GLASS
SONG XXII ~ TITANIC
SONG XXIII ~ OF BROKEN PASTRIES BY SOUR GRAPES
SONG XXIV ~ OF NATIVITY
SONG XXV ~ BROKEN PASTRIES
SONG XXVI ~ BUS BERLIN-PARIS
SONG XXVII ~ GODOT
PREFACE
At the beginning of my work with Exile Editions, I had no idea I would run into such interest in, and understanding of, my home country by Barry Callaghan, editor-in-chief and well-known writer, poet, and journalist. I read his book, HOGG The Seven Last Words; more than 150 pages of poems and notes devoted to Russian history and culture, focusing on the controversial and contentious Soviet period.
I was stunned. I thought: there are themes here in this work that I should explore through stories from my childhood and youth in exile in Kazakhastan, stories that would say something fresh about that poisoned, naïve, numbing period, that time of materialistic nothingness that could have been cast in Dante’s darkest circle.
I remembered Krushchev and the so-called Thaw, that sudden coming in 1956 of openness into our lives. March of that year had been bitterly cold. In school, ink had refused to write. On one such day, I heard a solemn radio voice accompanied by sorrowful music...Stalin had died. Then came Krushchev’s speech denouncing Stalin, and then the Thaw in our social