James Stotts
James Stotts is a poet and translator at work on an anthology of the Russian masters (from Pushkin and Fet, through Mariengof, Vaginov, Mandelstam, Gumilev, Esenin, and Tsvetaeva, to Brodsky and Ryzhii) in formal translations and abusive studies. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and son, and is a bartender in Cambridge. (updated 4/2010)
AGNI has published the following translations:
the river of time
Poetry by Gavrila Derzhavin • Translated from the Russian by James Stotts
The Giraffe
Poetry by Nikolai Gumilev • Translated from the Russian by James Stotts
“No crying, calling out, complaining . . .”
Poetry by Sergei Esenin • Translated from the Russian by James Stotts