A moongate in my wall: собрание стихотворений - [9]
Part One reproduces her three books: Stikhotvoreniia (Poems), Harbin, 1929; Stifdiotvoreniia II (Poems II), Shanghai, 1936; and Golubaia trava (Blue Grass), San Francisco, 1973, in their entirety. In Golubaia irava, the poems reprinted from the two earlier collections are omitted, but indicated in the appropriate places with the number assigned to them in this book and the first line.
Part Two presents unpublished poems written in Russian and not published in any of her collections, They are given in chronological order, and their publication in Emigre periodicals and collections, whenever known, is listed in the footnotes.
Part Three presents unpublished poems in English in chronological order and includes the cycle "My China."
Part Four consists of unpublished translations. It is divided into five sections: translations from English into Russian, from French into Russian, from Russian into English, from English translations of Chinese poetry into Russian, and from Russian translations of Korean poetry into Russian.
I thank Olga Tourkoff for materials from her mother's archive and for permission to publish the poetry.
I also thank Philippa Wallace Matheson for her excellent work on the typography of this book, and for many improvements in the Introduction and in the notes.
I am also grateful to Veronica Ahrens-Pulawska, Globus Bookstore, San Francisco, for her support and help in collecting and copying Mary Vezey's poems; to Jean Beckner, Special Collections Librarian, Pomona College, and to Beverly-Jene Coffman, Office Manager of the Office of Public Relations, Pomona College, Claremont, for materials on Mary Vezey's education and publishing at Pomona College; to Elena Chernyshev, Sydney, Australia, for the artwork in this book; to Dr. T. Jelihovsky-Wisely, Sydney, Australia, for materials about her friend, Mary Vezey; to Boris Thomson, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, for his help in working on this publication and for his Foreword; and to Steve Upton, USA, specialist on foreign education in China, for materials on the North China American School in Tongzhou.
Olga Bakich Toronto March 2005
Часть I. Стихотворения, опубликованные в сборниках
СТИХОТВОРЕНИЯ (ХАРБИН, 1929)
Невозможно житьБез солнца телу и душе без песни.Анна Ахматова
1. «Туда, где острая гряда…»
1928
2. «Я дивный храм построю в небе…»
7 июня 1928
3. «Проходи своей дорогой…»
1928
4. «Есть темный грот в лесной глуби…»[46]
1927
5. «Луна — сегодня вечером рано…»
1927
6. «На дне глубоких призрачных озер…»
1926
7. «Ты пришел и постучался в дверь…»