{"id":2057,"date":"2019-10-25T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:58:35","slug":"petersburgs-fresh-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"Petersburg&#8217;s Fresh Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/StP-at-night-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/StP-at-night-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/StP-at-night-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/StP-at-night-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6836-e1572015440928-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2063\" width=\"395\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6836-e1572015440928-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6836-e1572015440928-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6857-e1572014218734-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2053\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6857-e1572014218734-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_6857-e1572014218734-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing by the river Neva, wanting to compose poetry in St Petersburg, I couldn\u2019t hear beyond the lines of great poets &#8211; Akhmatova, Blok, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam. History dominates voice, especially in Russia. The Revolution, Stalin\u2019s terrors, the siege, all produced that great heroic resistance. We\u2019re not in the same history. We\u2019re in a vertiginous whirl, a global mess &#8211; oy! We stare, fixated, single-minded, stuck in one voice, while the river rushes in its own voices.&nbsp;<br \/>I like&nbsp;a multiplicity of voices, both full of critique and full of observation of humble objects that affirm our reality. So in Russia, who will write about young designers, scattering autumn leaves in its planked floor to show their rough hemp and peasant dresses? A hipster cafe by the canal, millet with pumpkin and pumpkin seeds? Restaurants that serve persimmon and yuzu over tuna. Inside the elaborate old palaces, there are concerts full of the whimsy of avant-garde 20th century music; inside the Marinksky a cleverly staged play on globalism as conceived a century ago &#8211; Puccini does the Western (Broadway, cinema) in opera, staged in St. Petersburg by a Frenchman. There still exist women guards who, if they move two muscles, it\u2019s one muscle too many. Range of military and police in a range of colors and uniforms. But this isn\u2019t your father\u2019s St. Petersburg. The trudging step has picked up, the despair on faces simply has shifted. Of course I\u2019m not addressing Putin; the polemic on both sides is hot and live; tirades against the evil imperial west is the other side of the same coin. Demonizing is not my bag. Empiricism, yes. Poetry, yes. Standing by the Neva hearing fresh rhythms and words &#8211; one hopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing by the river Neva, wanting to compose poetry in St Petersburg, I couldn\u2019t hear beyond the lines of great poets &#8211; Akhmatova, Blok, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam. History dominates voice, especially in Russia. 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