“ANNOUNCEMENT \/ I want greatness under all circumstances \/ I pay with bloody tears \/ urgently \/ Motherland”. Dmitri Strotsev alternates such ironic, conceptual, politically explosive “newspaper texts” with poetic and sometimes metaphysical tones. This is also the case in the poem of the title. \u201cmy sunlight \/ i am your dancing \/ dust\u201d* – the poet describes his reading performances as a \u201cpoetic dance\u201d. These poems explore such issues as the difficult legacy of the 20th century, existential questions of faith and criticism of the Orthodox Church, but also love and family ties. Andreas Weihe’s adaptation does wonderful justice to the rhythmic poems with their characteristic warm, colloquial intonation. \u201cDancing Dust\u201d is the first German publication by the renowned Belarusian poet who writes in Russian. (Translated by Timothy Poga\u010dar and Irina Stakhanova, edited by Ian Probstein).<\/em><\/p>\n Dmitri Strotsev<\/b>\u00a0is a Belarusian poet writing in Russian. Born in Minsk in 1963. An architect by education. Author of 22 books of poetry. Head of the literary and publishing project \u201c\u041d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u041c\u0435\u0445\u0438\u201d (\u201cNew Wineskins\u201d), publisher of the almanac and the poetry series \u201cMinsk School\u201d. Member of the Belarusian PEN Center. Laureate of the Russian Prize (2007). Laureate of the Norwegian Authors\u2019 Union\u2019s Freedom of Speech Award (2020). Laureate of the Ciampi Award \u2013 Valigie Rosse (Italy, 2020). Grand Prix of the prize for the best poem of the year by \u201cMetajournal\u201d (2020). Laureate of the V\u00e1clav Havel Library Foundation Disturbing the Peace Award for a Courageous Writer at Risk (2021). Laureate of Swedish PEN\u2019s Tucholsky Award (2021). Laureate of the Belarusian PEN Center Ale\u015b Adamovi\u010d Award (2021). The poems have been translated into English, Belarusian, Georgian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Norwegian, Polish, Ukrainian, French, Swedish, Czech, Estonian and other languages.<\/p>\n Andreas Weihe<\/strong>\u00a0was born in Germany in 1951. Studied biology in Kharkiv and Moscow, and has since then been intensively involved with Russian\/Soviet literature and culture. Started translating in the 1980s, among his translations are the letters of Marina Tsvetaeva, the texts on literary studies and journalist essays. After ending his scientific career in 2017, Weihe returned to translating prose and poetry from Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cDancing Dust\u201d is the first German publication by the renowned Belarusian poet who writes in Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9013,"template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[643,661],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8759","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-dmitri-strotsev","7":"product_cat-weihe-andreas","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n