Juggler. A Bilingual English-Russian Edition of Poems.

ISBN-13: 978-1931948777

''Dr. Neginsky reminds readers that we are also artists, for her works summon our responsibility. Under the Light of the Moon/ (2002) reads, plausibly, as a spiritual autobiography. This volume redirects its lyric mirrors upon us. That is, though self-reflecting I look into my poem, And it, my line, my double Comes out. Refined, handsome, with a soul made of amber. A nugget of silver. the works consistently most consciously in the ekphrastic pieces triggered from unique reactions to de Stael, Munch, Holbein dramatize any one s perception: I believe it is up to the reader to have his/her own emotions and associations. My interpretation is not that important. I am simply sharing it with you. She might have qualified this comment but tis the critic s task to refine; the artist has done quite enough. One might recast her words to focus on the nature of her importance, which entails Modeling reaction for the auditor, who brings his/her own emotions and associations to bear upon the canvas. But what all mean we by own ? We stand before a beautiful painting, Eliot writes, and if we are sufficiently carried away, our feeling is a whole which is not, in a sense, our feeling, since the painting, which is an object independent of us, is quite as truly a constituent as our consciousness or our soul. Everyone talks about the painting Scream ; as In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. Yet what transpires in genuine perception? when the act compasses being confronted by the art-object, denn sa ist keine Stelle, die dicht nicht sieht: Du muft dein Leben andern (for there is not the least Of parts but sees you. You must change your life.) The piece invokes, devours, seduces, smothers the viewer, in no state, then, to merely talk about it. And now I hear, And now I see Scream. Scream! That most paradoxically abstract substance in contemporary poetry, technique, manifests as the measure of the artist s sincerity. Dr. Neginsky reminds readers that we are also artists, for her works summon our responsibility. --Ethan Lewis, Professor of English at the University of Illinois.