Edition of 700 copies
Softcover
170x243 mm
64 pages
ISBN 978–9934-8361-7-6
Used. Photo and poetry book by Vladimirs Svetlovs.
The poetry collection includes the original poems in Russian and their translations in Latvian and English, as well as author’s photographs. Translations into Latvian were prepared by Ingmara Balode, Peteris Draguns, Marts Pujats and Arvis Viguls and into English by Kevin M.F.Platt. The author of the design is Ieva Skuja.
A kind of apocalyptic melancholy in which the city outskirts are fused with the emptiness of morning — bus stops free of people, empty asphalt, a sort of hazy and subdued scene of catastrophe with the emphasized vector of movement: “away from here.” In Svetlov's coordinate system, the end of the world is so meditatively pleasant that there is not even a desire to hide from it.
Jeļena Glazova “Viegli hēdoniskas skumjas” Punctum
In Vladimirs Svetlov's works, freely chosen moments of movement are like a program - almost an end in themselves. This applies both to photographs, which are dominated by an unpositioned, unclear image, place, object, and to poetry, which also mostly depicts some transient, passing constellation of things, people, and feelings as a moment of movement. This is the aesthetics of the cinema era - a still image that includes movement, and poetry that works in such a way that an image, a scene, awakens visual associations in the reader's head. However, it is precisely this feeling that is deceptive - it is the necessary confusion that, in order to understand, forces one to search for and allows one to notice the unexpectedly apparent form, the order in the disorder: ".. motion / that is stirred up / just because two people are walking / and so / you can / turn your attention to those / who think that the beautiful is the similar"
Ilva Skulte “Vienreizējais un otrreizējais” Latvju Teksti magazine
Edition of 700 copies
Softcover
170x243 mm
64 pages
ISBN 978–9934-8361-7-6
Used. Photo and poetry book by Vladimirs Svetlovs.
The poetry collection includes the original poems in Russian and their translations in Latvian and English, as well as author’s photographs. Translations into Latvian were prepared by Ingmara Balode, Peteris Draguns, Marts Pujats and Arvis Viguls and into English by Kevin M.F.Platt. The author of the design is Ieva Skuja.
A kind of apocalyptic melancholy in which the city outskirts are fused with the emptiness of morning — bus stops free of people, empty asphalt, a sort of hazy and subdued scene of catastrophe with the emphasized vector of movement: “away from here.” In Svetlov's coordinate system, the end of the world is so meditatively pleasant that there is not even a desire to hide from it.
Jeļena Glazova “Viegli hēdoniskas skumjas” Punctum
In Vladimirs Svetlov's works, freely chosen moments of movement are like a program - almost an end in themselves. This applies both to photographs, which are dominated by an unpositioned, unclear image, place, object, and to poetry, which also mostly depicts some transient, passing constellation of things, people, and feelings as a moment of movement. This is the aesthetics of the cinema era - a still image that includes movement, and poetry that works in such a way that an image, a scene, awakens visual associations in the reader's head. However, it is precisely this feeling that is deceptive - it is the necessary confusion that, in order to understand, forces one to search for and allows one to notice the unexpectedly apparent form, the order in the disorder: ".. motion / that is stirred up / just because two people are walking / and so / you can / turn your attention to those / who think that the beautiful is the similar"
Ilva Skulte “Vienreizējais un otrreizējais” Latvju Teksti magazine
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