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Brodsky’s “Ballad of a Little Tugboat” Released With New Artwork KXan 36 Daily News

Date: March 29, 2024 Time: 14:25:46

This “Ballad” by Joseph Brodsky was illustrated at different times by notable artists. Kasia Denisevich gave him a new life.

Just a poem. Brodsky’s first, published in 1962, when the poet was 22 years old. It was published in the magazine “Koster” in an abbreviated form, without the last stanza, and after this publication Brodsky was not published in the USSR. Two years later, the poet was expelled from Leningrad, and after 10 years he completely left the country forever.

A separate book “The Ballad of a Little Tugboat” was published only in 1991 with illustrations by Zaven Arshakuni, and, as eyewitnesses say, the poet himself managed to see this little paperback – the publication became a popular souvenir. among those who traveled to friends abroad. There were also other posts. This, at first glance, very childish poem by the poet came out with vivid illustrations by the famous Andersen Prize-winning artist Igor Oleinikov in 2011. And now it has another life, gifted to him by the prize-winning book illustrator Italian Bologna Ragazzi in the First Film nomination Kasya Denisevich.

His lyrical and atmospheric illustrations, complementing Brodsky’s lines, send the reader to the gloomy, granitic, oppressive city on the Neva. And each one of us, like that little tugboat, floats on the waves of life through routine and repetitive daily life, dreams of adventures painted in bright colors.

“This is how I always work, this is how I work and live, I forget in a dream what I was in reality, I run constantly, I am in a constant hurry, I bring, I take, I bring, I carry. I’m tired”.

Yes, and Brodsky himself, his fate, his poems, today somehow especially echo in the heart, with pain and anxiety for us today.

“At first, for me, it was mainly a text about Leningrad, a port city, where every second person dreams of getting into the Seafarer, like Brodsky himself,” says Denisevich. “Therefore, in my images there is a red-haired boy who is not in the poem, and his nocturnal trip to the I thought that this character, imperceptible in the text, is the other one who most needs a boat and adventures with palm trees and birds of fire…”.

By the way

The bookstore “Subscribed Editions” together with the museum “One and a Half Rooms” by Joseph Brodsky launched a series of events dedicated to the release of the book. On January 20, the exhibition “Ballad 1962 – 2022” will open in “A room and a half”, which will present the graphics of Kasia Denisevich. January 21 in “Subscription Editions” – a dialogue between Valery Shubinsky and Ivan Onosov “Uncensored Soviet poets and writers in children’s literature.” On January 22, it will be possible to visit Kasia Denisevich’s author’s tour of the exhibition “Ballad 1962-2022” and the master class “Brodsky’s Petersburg in the palm of your hand”, where children will be able to make their own three-dimensional panorama based on in the artist’s illustrations.

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Hansen Taylor
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