Boris Dralyuk
@BorisDralyuk
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My Hollywood & Other Poems @PaulDryBooks; translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks, @TheTLS, etc.; teach @utulsa; EiC @NimrodJournal
Tulsa, OK
Joined August 2021
The incomparable @tedgioia has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club!
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RT @smellstories: Jul 15 @BorisDralyuk: "This all began with my translation of Duke’s ode to LA’s Farmers Market… "….
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RT @DavidMKatz1: From: LA to NY:.Dreamers with empty hands.They sigh for exotic lands.It's autumn in New York.It's good to live it again.
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This all began with my translation of Duke’s ode to LA’s Farmers Market. From there, it unfolded like a dream… Thank you, Vernon, for many happy hours…
New today! Vernon Duke's richly detailed memoir of a life in emigration and of a dual career in the “serious” and “popular” music worlds. New edition includes an Introduction by @BorisDralyuk as well as his translations of Duke's original poems.
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RT @PaulDryBooks: Thank you @alexrossmusic2 for your praise of PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS by Vernon Duke! With a new Introduct….
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Tomorrow is pub day for Vernon Duke’s PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS (@PaulDryBooks). In prose and in verse, even at his most playful, he retains an immigrant’s melancholy sense of impermanence. Below he tells the tale of Venice, CA—the dream of Abbot Kinney (1850-1920).
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“… a piece of bread …”.
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Massachusetts-born, actually, and Colorado-educated. Still digging….
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I have discovered a curious and quite original poet—Colorado-born and, for some time, Los Angeles-based Myron H. Broomell (1906-1970). His verse technique is crisp and striking, his diction modern, his tone philosophically aloof yet not lacking in feeling. Here’s one from 1944.
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Here is the story of a pioneer in this particular trade, and of my own service in the industry:
This tour guide had quite the setup, including an office (shed with doors). I’d guess he was near Beverly Hills because that’s where most of the movie stars lived in 1938. At least his customers would have seen the homes. These days, most are hidden behind 10-foot hedges.
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RT @wikeleyjb: "A poem’s politics can’t be neatly deduced from its formal surface, or a poet’s politics from her chosen verse style.". Than….
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Reupping an @LAReviewofBooks essay by Austin Allen—featuring @ae_stallings (Oxford Professor of Poetry), among others—in the hopes that it will reach @JoyceCarolOates:
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RT @NimrodJournal: Today our free newsletter subscribers received the first in an occasional series of essays, available exclusively online….
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I am gratified, as a reader and an Angeleno, to see cantankerous heartthrob, reluctant raconteur, and uncompromising artist John Tottenham—part of a long lineage of gimlet-eyed Brits surviving in and surveying LA—reviewed appreciatively in @nybooks:
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Besides the boy, the four daughters, and the tsar and his wife, the executioners killed a doctor, a cook, a butler, a maid, and two dogs. A dog’s death for a dog, as the Russians say. But what happens to a movement that metes out such deaths regularly, as the Bolsheviks did? 5/5.
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Alexei, a severe hemophiliac, was unable to walk. He was carried to the basement by his father and placed in a chair. The chances of him surviving into adulthood and taking the throne, had he been rescued and the Bolsheviks been defeated, were slim. 4/5.
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The commander of the executioners was 40; the most violent—who bayoneted the still living women and girls—was 34. One of the youngest, 24 at the time, recalled in 1964 that it took a long time for the women, girls, and 13yo Alexei to die. They fought and groaned. 3/5.
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Far be it from me to defend Nicholas. He was as callous a man as he was foolish; his reign was disastrous, criminal. But the murder of his family and their servants was carried out in a manner far more brutal than can be justified. And it was carried out by grown men. 2/5.
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