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    Journey to Armenia

    By Osip Mandelstam

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    Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He visited Armenia in 1930 and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. Includes the companion piece Conversation About Dante. 'It takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature.' - Bruce Chatwin.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNotting Hill Editions
    Release dateJun 6, 2016
    ISBN9781910749869
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    Journey to Armenia
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    Osip Mandelstam

    Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He visited Armenia in 1930 and during his stay he was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. This edition includes the companion piece Conversation About Dante.

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      The best poems are always prose, this book wants to make me say--the kind of deadpan, ludicrous epigram that Mandelstam could almost pull off. But no, he'd be more likely to say that the best words are the ones that never get a chance to congeal into these embarrassing remnant forms--instead, the ones that flicker caressingly across your set of predispositions that is you and change ones to zeroes and zeroes to ones; that burrow and coccoon and come out hardy and woody yet limber new appendages, extending your scope of movement. The overt theme is the journey, but this be no travelogue: not cod-ethnography but felt difference is what is on Mandelstam's mind, and the lionization of small peoples, and the reclamation of a (cod-)preclassical past of yoghurt gourds, camping on ridges tired from one day's ascent and tingling for another's, and, ummmmm, Ararat. The way sounds feel--the sounds of Armenian serving as the occasion for much synaesthetic speechmaking--and the bequest sounds bear for their utterers--a deeply sensuous linguistic relativity. This sensuousness above all--I grinned biggest of many grins when he said, as has long been my key piece of gallerygoing advice, move fast, stride on, make of the work a draught for drinking on your trek, not a fetish-object for deathly hours with a magnifying-glass over. (My second half of that, a byword only for me as opposed to for everybody, has been imagine that art in your mouth. Kapow!) Not growing moss, more profound and ursprunglich a cliche than we know perhaps (CF. BRUCE CHATWIN), but here embodied in the poet as gypsy thief as immortal, unrepentant wanderluster only for experiences that are not his own, that do not belong to the fields and collective farms he knows. "The Armenian that therefore I am."