Elaine Reichek
You are No Longer Among the Living (Akhmatova), 2018
hand embroidery with beads on linen
28 ⅛ x 16 ⅞ inches
71,44 cm X 42,86 cm
71,44 cm X 42,86 cm
Transcription: You are no longer among the living, You cannot rise from the snow. Twenty-eight bayonets, Five bullets. A bitter new shirt For my beloved I sewed. The Russian earth...
Transcription:
You are no longer among the living,
You cannot rise from the snow.
Twenty-eight bayonets,
Five bullets.
A bitter new shirt
For my beloved I sewed.
The Russian earth loves, loves
Droplets of blood.
Anna Akhmatova, 1921
Judith Hemschemeyer, trans. and Roberta Reeder, ed., The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Boston: Zephyr Press, 1997).
You are no longer among the living,
You cannot rise from the snow.
Twenty-eight bayonets,
Five bullets.
A bitter new shirt
For my beloved I sewed.
The Russian earth loves, loves
Droplets of blood.
Anna Akhmatova, 1921
Judith Hemschemeyer, trans. and Roberta Reeder, ed., The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Boston: Zephyr Press, 1997).
Exhibitions
Elaine Reichek: Between the Needle and the Book, January 18 – February 29, 2020. McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas.
Elaine Reichek: Sight Unseen, May 17 - June 23, 2019. Marinaro, New York, NY.