{"product_id":"opium-dreams-gemma-ray-9789655976502","title":"Opium Dreams: Echoes of Russian Decadence - English Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eВот версия без длинных тире \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpium Dreams: Echoes of Russian Decadence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere candlelight meets ruin, and beauty decays into gold.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Russia's Silver Age poets discovered Charles Baudelaire, they didn't find a foreign voice. They found a mirror. His fog, his intoxication, his hunger for beauty balanced on the edge of decay were already alive in their own language, waiting to be named. \u003cem\u003eOpium Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e follows that shared pulse: a collection of English verse adaptations, not literal translations, but close poetic reimaginings of the poets who turned Symbolism, Decadence, and Acmeism into some of the most hypnotic poetry ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you'll meet familiar names: Blok, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, alongside voices too rarely read today: Voloshin, Gippius, Bryusov, Sologub, Severyanin, Merezhkovsky, Gumilev, Yesenin, Bunin, Nadson, Balmont, Annensky. Arranged not by chronology but by emotional gravity, the book moves through five chapters, from dreaming and seduction, through masks and devotion, to farewell and fracture: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eI. The Velvet Fog\u003c\/strong\u003e: dreaminess, languor, illusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eII. Deadly Blossoms\u003c\/strong\u003e: seduction, physicality, forbidden beauty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIII. Mirrors and Masks\u003c\/strong\u003e: deception, duality, inner theater\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIV. Toward the Temple\u003c\/strong\u003e: art, worship, longing for purity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eV. Cracked Light\u003c\/strong\u003e: farewell, disintegration, beauty in ruin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not textbook translations. They are what the author calls \"double breathing.\" Each poem inhales in Russian, carrying its history and silence, and exhales in English as a second life, not an echo. The goal was never accuracy at any cost, but resonance: poems that unsettle, seduce, and stay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral poems come paired with original song adaptations, bringing this era's aching musicality into the present. Biographical notes trace what became of these poets: exile, censorship, execution, obscurity, and in rare cases, survival, reminding us that the beauty in these pages was often paid for in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume II in the series \u003cem\u003eThe Infinite Faces of Love\u003c\/em\u003e, following \u003cem\u003eAs Long as I Breathe. I Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who don't ask whether a poem is faithful, but whether it breathes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gemma Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9655976505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789655976502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gemma Ray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d","brand":"Gemma Ray","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174165946623,"sku":"9789655976502","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/opium-dreams-gemma-ray-9789655976502","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}