Bezdelki

In Carol Rumens's Bezdelki, small things like the English meaning of her Russian title help to shore up the memory of a life. These elegies for a late partner, written in memory of Yuri Drobyshev, explore the principle that death, even for atheists, isn''t purely loss. Instead, a kind of conversation between two people can be continued through willed acts of memory, whether by rooting through inci...