The Two Richards - by Vladimir Azarov (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Vladimir Azarov was a child of the Soviet Kazakhstan steppes. When his mother discovered that he had a slight curvature of the spine, with her own loving humour she nicknamed him Richie, after Richard III, the 14th century English king, himself crooked, made famous as a monster by Shakespeare. At the same time Azarov suffered a vision-altering wound to his eye that transformed the way he perceived the world, both real and imagined. The wound eventually healed and, as he grew up feeling a wry kinship to the king, his bent eye became that of a visionary, of an artist who was a convention-breaking architect, and finally as a poet, not writing in Russian, but in the King's English. When, not long ago, the actual bones of Richard III were found under a parking lot in Leicester town, Azarov - now in his 80s living in Toronto, and remembering his kinship by name - envisioned the archeological dig and re-interment of the bones, and he became one in his mind with the reputation-renovated and redeemed king. He became, at last, Richie-Richard III, being sung to on a rainy day, over a new grave, by medieval knights.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Vladimir Azarov is an architect and poet, formerly from Moscow, who lives in Toronto. He has published: <i>On the Death of Ivan Ilyich</i>; <i>Three Books</i>; <i>Of Architecture </i>(with illustrations by Nina Bunjevac); <i>Seven Lives</i>; S<i>ochi Delerium; Broken Pastries</i>; <i>Mongolian Études</i>; <i>Night Out</i>; <i>Dinner With Catherine the Great</i>; <i>Imitation</i>; <i>Of Life and Other Small Sacrifices</i>; T<i>he Kiss from Mary Pickford</i>: <i>Cinematic Poems</i>; and <i>Voices in Dialogue: Dramatic Poems</i> - and with Barry Callaghan, Strong Words, translations in an English/Russian bilingual edition, of Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, and Andrei Voznesensky.</p>
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