At the Grave of Joseph Brodsky

[Vadim Besprozvany]

Very odd. But everything in the poem (and around it) confirms that  
this is Brodsky's grave. I guess that "несомненный камень" would be  
quite unusual phrase for Motion's more or less traditional poetic  
vocabulary.

Thank you,

VB

> An odd collocation.  Is there any reason to doubt that this is  
> Brodsky's grave?  How about несомненный камень?  with the line  
> reading у несомненного камня вашего
>
> On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Vadim Besprozvany wrote:
>
>> Dear SEELANGers,
>>
>> I'm struggling to translate into Russian "At the Grave of Joseph
>> Brodsky" by Andrew Motion. There is one phrase in the poem that gives
>> me real trouble: "your undisputed stone." Here is the whole stanza:
>>
>> The instant I arrive
>> At your undisputed stone
>> I slip back twenty years
>> Across the tense lagoon
>> [etc.]
>>
>> Besides Russian translation of the phrase, I will really appreciate
>> any explanations, synonymic constructions, etc. Fiction and/or
>> non-fiction intertexts would be especially welcomed.
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>> Vadim Besprozvany
>>
>> PS: I'm familiar with Russian translation of the poem, but my friend
>> and colleague, who asked me to do this project, is not very happy with
>> this variant:)
>>
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