Matvei Yankelevich
Matvei Yankelevich’s translations include Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms. His most recent poetry chapbook is Dead Winter (Fonograf). His co-translation of Mandelstam’s The Voronezh Notebooks is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. He is the editor of the nonprofit publisher World Poetry Books and teaches translation at Columbia University and elsewhere.
Poem from The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by John High and Matvei Yankelevich.
I am writing this down while on an Amtrak train, heading north along the muddy-green, sunlit Hudson, rolling past some of the places where Cole and I hung out sporadically in various seasons, and where I—along with many others—hoped to cross paths with Cole this summer and many summers onward.
October 2019In Memoriam
A Tribute to Steve Dalachinsky
