A few out-of-point notes to Ron Silliman's blog (about Mayakovsky) and his guests
Sorry if it sounds a little rude for a beginning of communication, but…
For a former so-called Soviet citizen and a present American citizen under Oath of Allegiance (unlike many Americans), it's a very tough task to hear from another one American "intellectual" such things as:
1. A number of the Russian poets of my own generation dismiss Mayakovsky rather the way one might expect a language poet to dismiss Gregory Corso, as a buffoon who attached himself to a moment in history.
2. [Mayakovsky] deserves to considered an early casualty of the murderous Stalin regime
3. one might expect a language poet to dismiss Gregory Corso
4. his [Mayakovsky's] memory in Russia was propagated by the state for decades, since he so forcefully celebrated the October Revolution of 1917
5. I wish we weren't separated by 10,000 miles and uncommon languages (to Igor Satanovsky).
6. Impeach Bush
I'd like to say this, respectively:
1. Flat wrong. How many years Silliman lived in the former Soviet Union to dare say so?
2. Flat wrong. Again the same American intelligentsia's mantra – Lenin was good, but Stalin distorted the lofty ideals. Early casualties began with Lenin's personally signed orders to ruthlessly kill all Russians who disagreed with Bolsheviks and to build Concentration camps (a prototype of Hitler's camps). Millions have been killed long before Stalin.
3. It sounds very narcissistic: I don't remember, for instance, Russian poets dismissing Rainer Maria Rilke's poems in Russian.
4. Flat wrong: 8-volume Collected Works of Mayakovsky were published first time only in late 1950th, and even in 1958, it was still dangerous to read some of his verses.
5. Flat wrong Igor Satanovsky lives a lot closer – in the Northeast USA – since 1989, and he is a bilingual poet and editor (seemingly, unlike Curtis Faville)
6. It's very pity that a poet, Ron Silliman, is in the same boat as Hollywood "anti-American-Imperialistic intelligentsia" who know the life only through windows of their multi-million castles and inherited all the pro-Communism ideological dirt that was injected in 1930 by NKVD agents. "Impeach Bush" is the same peaceniks-like anti-American-Imperialistic movement that betrayed American soldiers in Vietnam and factually allowed mass murder of 2 to 3 Million of Cambodians by Pol Pot. The same peaceniks movement that opposed the government to enter into the war against Hitler until 1944 thus causing additional Millions of dead people in European countries and Russia. Peace of the price of Millions of deaths in the world and even thousands of Americans on 9/11? What peace? When "good" people don't fight while bad people are still fighting, there is no peace. There is only more blood. So, impeach Bush, and praise who? Cindy Sheehan who betrayed her own son by calling American soldiers "terrorists"? Or Al Gore? Wow…it's true – intelligentsia.
Regards,
Constantine Ivanov,
NY
www . PoemsAndReflectionsConstantineIvanov . com
For a former so-called Soviet citizen and a present American citizen under Oath of Allegiance (unlike many Americans), it's a very tough task to hear from another one American "intellectual" such things as:
1. A number of the Russian poets of my own generation dismiss Mayakovsky rather the way one might expect a language poet to dismiss Gregory Corso, as a buffoon who attached himself to a moment in history.
2. [Mayakovsky] deserves to considered an early casualty of the murderous Stalin regime
3. one might expect a language poet to dismiss Gregory Corso
4. his [Mayakovsky's] memory in Russia was propagated by the state for decades, since he so forcefully celebrated the October Revolution of 1917
5. I wish we weren't separated by 10,000 miles and uncommon languages (to Igor Satanovsky).
6. Impeach Bush
I'd like to say this, respectively:
1. Flat wrong. How many years Silliman lived in the former Soviet Union to dare say so?
2. Flat wrong. Again the same American intelligentsia's mantra – Lenin was good, but Stalin distorted the lofty ideals. Early casualties began with Lenin's personally signed orders to ruthlessly kill all Russians who disagreed with Bolsheviks and to build Concentration camps (a prototype of Hitler's camps). Millions have been killed long before Stalin.
3. It sounds very narcissistic: I don't remember, for instance, Russian poets dismissing Rainer Maria Rilke's poems in Russian.
4. Flat wrong: 8-volume Collected Works of Mayakovsky were published first time only in late 1950th, and even in 1958, it was still dangerous to read some of his verses.
5. Flat wrong Igor Satanovsky lives a lot closer – in the Northeast USA – since 1989, and he is a bilingual poet and editor (seemingly, unlike Curtis Faville)
6. It's very pity that a poet, Ron Silliman, is in the same boat as Hollywood "anti-American-Imperialistic intelligentsia" who know the life only through windows of their multi-million castles and inherited all the pro-Communism ideological dirt that was injected in 1930 by NKVD agents. "Impeach Bush" is the same peaceniks-like anti-American-Imperialistic movement that betrayed American soldiers in Vietnam and factually allowed mass murder of 2 to 3 Million of Cambodians by Pol Pot. The same peaceniks movement that opposed the government to enter into the war against Hitler until 1944 thus causing additional Millions of dead people in European countries and Russia. Peace of the price of Millions of deaths in the world and even thousands of Americans on 9/11? What peace? When "good" people don't fight while bad people are still fighting, there is no peace. There is only more blood. So, impeach Bush, and praise who? Cindy Sheehan who betrayed her own son by calling American soldiers "terrorists"? Or Al Gore? Wow…it's true – intelligentsia.
Regards,
Constantine Ivanov,
NY
www . PoemsAndReflectionsConstantineIvanov . com
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