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[joshthewriter.livejournal.com]

Всем привет!
I am looking for some Russian poetry to read.  I have things like Pushkin and Nikitin, and lighter fare as such already, but I'm looking for darker poets similar to Leonard Cohen or Edgar Allen Poe, who deal in subjects like death and despair and the tragedies of life.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Хм ?

[zellily.livejournal.com]

Безобразно труп ужасный
Посинел и весь распух.
Горемыка ли несчастный
Погубил свой грешный дух
Рыболов ли взят волнами
Али хмельный молодец
Аль ограбленный ворами
Недогадливый купец?

[iinga.livejournal.com]

Try Lermontov (Михаил Лермонтов),
Blok (Александр Блок)
Brodsky (Иосиф Бродский)

[trankov.livejournal.com]

хаахахаха

[zoa-mel-gustar.livejournal.com]

Лермонтов. Бальмонт. Maybe Хармс. Not all of their poems, but some of them... I can't remember Russian poets who wrote only or mainly dark poetry... Maybe some modern poets? Oh, yeah, try Илья Кормильцев!

[master-yourself.livejournal.com]

http://magister.msk.ru/library/poetry/barkov01.htm

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

And you obviously thought that was really funny, did you?

[master-yourself.livejournal.com]

This is a classical example of a poetry about a life tragedy. Why not?

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

A classical example of life tragedy poetry would be Mikhalkov's Uncle Styopa, according to this sort of logic.

[old-radist.livejournal.com]

Why it should be a tragedy? He didn't die!

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

He was Stalin's militia officer. Isn't that a tragedy in itself?

[old-radist.livejournal.com]

He was folk's militia officer.
He has defended Leningrad by marine and was wounded a little.
He was even a fireman.

That's a good life!

[crystal-cold.livejournal.com]

I suggest Brusov (Брюсов Валерий).

[sart2003.livejournal.com]

Also you can try some dark lyrics - Sergey Kalugin (Сергей Калугин) for example

Анна Ахматова

[acuzena.livejournal.com]

Песня последней встречи

Так беспомощно грудь холодела,
Но шаги мои были легки.
Я на правую руку надела
Перчатку с левой руки.

Показалось, что много ступеней,
А я знала - их только три!
Между кленов шепот осенний
Попросил: "Со мною умри!

Я обманут моей унылой,
Переменчивой, злой судьбой".
Я ответила: "Милый, милый!
И я тоже. Умру с тобой…"

Это песня последней встречи.
Я взглянула на темный дом.
Только в спальне горели свечи
Равнодушно-желтым огнем.

[la-dy-ashley.livejournal.com]

Try the so-called Silver Age (roughly, the beginning of the XXth century). Most commentators have suggested these poets, actually (Blok, Akhmatova, Balmont, Bryusov), and if you want more names, try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Age_of_Russian_Poetry
or this: http://www.russia-ic.com/culture_art/literature/838/.

[trilbyhat.livejournal.com]

I would suggest Pasternak, because of his vocabulary and syntax which is very modern and straightforward.
And Zabolotsky to see the worst of it :) (rather than Kharms)

darker?

[avla.livejournal.com]

Я спросил электрика Петрова:
— Для чего ты намотал на шею провод?
Ничего Петров не отвечает,
Только тихо ботами качает.

(Олег Григорьев)

[odpaam.livejournal.com]

Try Михаил Щербаков. But his lyrics is a bit complicated.

[icamel.livejournal.com]

Arseny Tarkovsky

Немецкий автоматчик подстрелит на дороге,
Осколком ли фугаски перешибут мне ноги,

В живот ли пулю влепит эсесовец-мальчишка,
Но все равно мне будет на этом фронте крышка.

И буду я разутый, без имени и славы
Замерзшими глазами смотреть на снег кровавый.

[hiddenpresence.livejournal.com]

Anna Ahmatova (Анна Ахматова), Boris Pasternak (Борис Пастернак), Alexander Blok (Александр Блок)

[moskvitina.livejournal.com]

Егор Летов (Yegor Letov) will suit you perfectly I think. :)

Something like that:

Глупый мотылёк
Догорал на свечке
Жаркий уголёк
Дымные колечки
Звёздочка упала в лужу у крыльца...
Отряд не заметил потери бойца

Мёртвый не воскрес
Хворый не загнулся
Зрячий не ослеп
Спящий не проснулся
Весело стучали храбрые сердца...
Отряд не заметил потери бойца

Не было родней
Не было красивей
Не было больней
Не было счастливей
Не было начала, не было конца...
Отряд не заметил потери бойца

1990

[spiritrc.livejournal.com]

Letov was very primitive and secondary. He was a famous Russian punk musician, but calling him a poet is a big mistake.

As to the source for the borrowed "отряд не заметил потери бойца", I would recommend Mikhail Svetlov (Михаил Светлов).
Specifically, this sentence was taken from his poem "Grenada" (Гренада).

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

That isn't poetry. Bulgakov was a prose writer, not a poet.

[mrmeloman.livejournal.com]

Esenin, Mayakovsky

[burrru.livejournal.com]

How fluent is your Russian?

[joshthewriter.livejournal.com]

Barely conversational, part of the reason I'm looking for poetry is because I want to a) get some exposure to culture and b) I'm already interested in English language poetry so it's somewhat of a motivational tactic.

[old-radist.livejournal.com]

>> because I want to a) get some exposure to culture

Hm... I'm afraid, darker poets like Leonard Cohen or Edgar Allen Poe are not so typical for the russian culture.

[spiritrc.livejournal.com]

Why? The darkness of Russian silver age poets has a different nature, but it's still darkness.
Blok is pretty dark and depressive, as well as Akhmatova.
I would also recommend Voloshin (Максимилиан Волошин). Not too dark, but pretty depressive as all the silver age poets.

[trankov.livejournal.com]

The comments are demonstration of stupidness. People who know the language absolutely retarded in history of literature.

So, if you interested in "dark poets", of course, you have to read early russian modernists (beginning of 20th century), they were inspired by French decadents such as Mallarmé or Rimbaund and were concentrated on infernal themes and death side of reality. The brightest examples are Gippius, Merezhkovsky, Sologoub and others.

Also, our classic and modern classic poets who wrote the philosophic lyric poetry has these themes fragmentally and particularly too, but if you interested in dark poetry precisely, then, of course, your choice is russian decadance.

[carska-doch.livejournal.com]

согласна с последним комментарием - стеб и демонстрация собственной тупости. Ему не хочется читать про трупы

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your contribution. However, the working language in this community is English.

[carska-doch.livejournal.com]

Ok, thanks

[nic102.livejournal.com]

The Silver Age.

Also Brodskiy. Not so much dark but deep.

[riegel.livejournal.com]

Brodsky is sometimes dark, too dark even, if you ask me)
and Mandelshtam!

[w-wolfram.livejournal.com]

Do you mean dead poets? Gumilev - half Poe, half Kipling, in Russian:)
If no then you can find a lot of that stuff among youngsters' poetry - not mentioning that it will be a big pile of crap. With rare exceptions, though:)
Here, for example. Ivan Kozlov (http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/2011/4/ko3.html) - I believe his poems are very close to what you have requested. Marianna Geide (book in .pdf) (http://polutona.ru/books/geide_sm.pdf) - not so close, but - mystical reverse side of commonnes, etc., you know:)
Linor Goralik (http://linorg.ru/column.html) - the same atrocity of everyday living, shadow of raven's (I mean that raven, of course) wings on the brow of more-than-ordinary human beeng - a man of the middle class, for example.

Well, my poor English ends here:)
Hope you'll enjoy with those three I listed. Sorry for pronounce anyway)

[arina-rus.livejournal.com]

Try to read some of Edward Asadov. His language is quite clear as he lived in the 20th century. I love much some of his verses
Good luck!

[crocotiger.livejournal.com]

Юрий Кузнецов | Yury Kuznetsov

Возвращение

Шёл отец, шёл отец невредим
Через минное поле.
Превратился в клубящийся дым -
Ни могилы, ни боли.

Мама, мама, война не вернёт…
Не гляди на дорогу.
Столб крутящейся пыли идёт
Через поле к порогу.

Словно машет из пыли рука,
Светят очи живые.
Шевелятся открытки на дне сундука -
Фронтовые.

Всякий раз, когда мать его ждёт, -
Через поле и пашню
Столб крутящейся пыли бредёт
Одинокий и страшный.

1972

http://www.clubochek.ru/lib.php?rat=21&dog=1064

[khanuka.livejournal.com]

Hi. Try Vladislav Khodasevich: http://www.hodasevich.su/ and Innnokenty Annensky: http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/annenskij.html
Amazing poetry, I'm sure you'll like it.