Flowers of Grass Western Europe RUSSIA: Andrei Gelasimov

RUSSIA: Andrei Gelasimov

He traces with consummate art the passage of time through his own accumulating presence

like a film loop played once too often

with his father as a passenger in the front seat

Flowers of Grass Western Europe RUSSIA: Andrei GelasimovOutside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi . . . Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi. After the stubborn Shiomi insists on undergoing a dangerous surgical