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Wrestling with the questions of travel, memory, and perception, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album is, at its core, an unrequited love song to St. Petersburg. The fever dream of Peter the Great, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Akhmatova, St. Petersburg is the occasion for a broader meditation on all we come to love and lose. Pictures began as a journal notebook in 2002, as the poet tried to capture this spectacle-rich and memory-laden city that he had visited ten years before. Scored to the movements of Modest Mussorgsky’s legendary suite―a work of art elegizing a lost friend, the artist Hartmann―Pictures marks, and sometimes sings, the incommensurability of word and world. ** Poetry Cover 1 Copyright 5 Contents 6 First Movement. A Guided Tour 11 Second. Gnomus 18 Third. Dear Lattice of Peasant Ribs 21 Interlude: Letter (Never Sent) to Volodya and Natasha 22 Scratched Track List for Hieromonk Roman’s “Holy Psalter” 23 Russian Haiku 24 Fourth. Questions for Custine (The Old Haunts) 25 Interlude: Letter (Never Sent) to G. 33 Fifth. Promenade: Nevsky Prospekt 34 Interlude: Three Russias 38 Sixth. Gardens: A Retranslation 39 Interlude: Iconostasis of the Former Museum of At

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Author

Metres, Philip

Publisher

The University of Akron Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781629220253

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14