If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems

By Vera Pavlova

Book Overview

Now in paperback, the widely acclaimed collection of one hundred poems of extraordinarily elegant simplicity by one of the best-selling poets in Russia, whose presence on the American poetry scene is increasingly strong.

Pavlova writes about love (both sexual love and the love that reaches beyond sex); about motherhood; about the memories of childhood that continue to feed us; about our lives as passionate souls abroad in the world. Sensitively translated by her husband, Steven Seymour, Pavlova's poems are highly disciplined miniatures ("I broke your heart. / Now barefoot I tread / on shards"--a whole poem in ten words). Pavlova is a poet who storms our hearts with pure talent and a seemingly effortless gift for shaping poems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375711899
• ISBN13: 9780375711893
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"