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A Poetic Cartography of Vladivostok: "Letter to a Marvelous Chinese Man"
This is not a work of fiction. Every name, face, and character in Alexander Belykh’s "Letter to a Marvelous Chinese Man" is real. They continue to write, rarely send greetings, some have left us forever—but all remain within the living circle of the author’s communion. The book explores what Belykh calls the "domestic poetics" of Vladivostok, a meditation that arose while he was distracted from his Japanese translations of Yukio Mishima’s difficult novels, turning instead to the vivid faces of his own distant and near circle.
Within these pages, you will encounter poets rediscovered from the ancient "state by the sea" of Bohai—lost in the eighth century under raids by warlike Tungusic tribes. You will meet fugitive Russian Futurists from the period of the Russian Revolution, who found temporary refuge on the edge of the Russian Empire. And you will find Soviet poets who vanished without external cause before the millennium’s end. All are real. All are part of a living, breathing testament to a place and its people.