Solar Eclipse 1914 by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. By Peter Oram Marius Kociejowski Here is an exhortation to

Here is an exhortation to remake

mountains are climbed

has never felt so close at hand

Manuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience

First published by Azul Editions in 1993

Solar Eclipse 1914 by Arseny Tarkovsky, trans. By Peter Oram Marius Kociejowski Here is an exhortation toArseny Tarkovsky (1907 1989) is considered to be one of the most important Russian poets of the twentieth century, yet his work is rarely encountered outside Russia. This selection of his verse, brilliantly translated in metre and rhyme by the late Peter Oram, aims to make his poetry more widely available to an English language readership while the introduction by two eminent scholars of Russian literature sets it in its wider context.