Bio
Anatoly Kudryavitsky lives in Dublin, Ireland, and in Reggio di Calabria, Italy. He is the editor of SurVision poetry magazine. His most recent poetry collections are "The Two-Headed Man and the Paper Life" (MadHat Press, USA, 2019) and "Scultura Involontaria" (Casa della poesia, Italy, 2020; a bilingual English/Italian edition). His latest novel, "The Flying Dutchman", has been published by Glagoslav Publications, England, in 2018. In 2020, he won an English PEN Translate Award for his anthology of Russian dissident poetry 1960-1980 entitled "Accursed Poets" (Smokestack Books, 2020).
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Behind the Wall of Breath
Kingdoms of the inner body
pray to the Original Pattern
Our inbursts
our lust outlasting its salt
What is asleep before sleep?
We swim miles of darkness
walls swallow us
Henceforth we behave
In the house of Never-Was
the might of the night
crucified against the bed ribs
the other-now, as if without
We cast flowers
we elect our daily undertaker