Comments On 10 Oct 2014 Ilya Kaminsky said:
I love her poems, serious and tender, hers was the metaphysical voice that endears, allows kindness. I love the the humor and fierce clarity of her prose pieces, those of hers that drop musical notes all over the floor, and then kneel to gather them like feathers. We have lost a poet so unmistakably beautiful, a poet whose attentiveness to the world was a prayer. May her works find many readers.
On 21 Jan 2014 Craig Czury said:
Beautifully Old Among The Apple Trees
one of us is dead by now
this is the horizon
— Craig Czury,
On 21 Jan 2014 Antoni Albalat Salanova said:
El poeta es siempre un ser enjaulado no sólo por la realidad sino, paradoja, por su necesidad vital de cantar: es prisionero de sí mismo, de su voz interior, de su vivencia más profunda que necesita cantar siempre: es un Sísifo del pensamiento y de la comunicación de los temas más graves, más medulares. Esa voz, en Regina, llegó a resonar incluso con aspereza: con fuerza y desesperación, con desgarro de martirologio. Por eso lo grita, porque llega a ser desgarro y aullido. El poeta también aúlla: nos lo enseñó Allen Ginsberg y Regina no sólo nos lo recordó, sino que aulló (tal vez no sólo por ella, sino, quiero pensar, que por todos nosotros y, en especial, por toda la gente que aún en 2013 necesita aullar y no puede). Su poesía, su aullido perenne es un acto de expiación ecuménica. El dolor de Regina lleva tatuado en la piel de sus palimpsestos el dolor de tantos y tantos seres humanos que sufren amordazados en cualquier lugar del planeta. Derieva aúlla sin concesiones a la poesía de verso amable, de palabras hermosas, sin dejarse arrastrar por el canto fácil de las sirenas del verso afectado por la estética y vacío de contenido existencial.
On 11 Jan 2014 Yeow Kai Chai said:
singapore epitaph
i.m. regina derieva
stare into
streaks forearm
wind salt sun
off this isle
On 9 Jan 2014 Hsien Min Toh said:
i.m. Regina Derieva
Yesterday differs from today
On 5 Jan 2014 Arcady Kotler said:
Regina poetic language combine the greatest imaginative accuracy with the most elaborate and sensible organization
On 5 Jan 2014 Paddy Bushe said:
I met Regina Derieva at a festival in Singapore in 2007. I was impressed by her integrity and sincerity at both the personal and the poetic levels. It is these qualities that will ensure her work lives on.
Woman and Winter Wind
The woman lay among the soft mounds
All the hillside streamed with it, and she
O never, she thought, was woman
Prelude, she whispered, this grassy wind
On 3 Jan 2014 Lars Palm said:
i want to remember Regina Derieva who passed away on december 11. i met her briefly twice, 2005 in malmö & 2007 in stockholm. on both occasions for international poetry festivals. & speaking of her poetry i enjoyed it a great deal although we lived in different literary traditions. all i can add is a brief poem
(the gun)
i. m Regina Derieva
central london pub
pint of bitter winter
call from alexander in stockholm
you have retired
bitter winter indeed
at least no snow for now
On 1 Jan 2014 Richard J. Reisner said:
Beyond
There are words but not enough
On 1 Jan 2014 William Doreski said:
While I didn't know Regina personally, I knew her work and admired her vivid and adventurous voice. The world needs poetry like hers, and she wrote for the entire planet. Everyone loses when a fine poet has gone.
On 30 Dec 2013 Elisabeth Hjorth said:
Regina Derieva wrote the the world with the most severe love, a humorous gentleness and a true solidarity. But her poetry is not just the writing of the world, it perforates life and gives a glimpse of something not at hand. The depth of her voice will be missed.
On 26 Dec 2013 John Kinsella said:
Habit Hard to Break
for Regina Derieva
It’s a habit,
John Kinsella
On 23 Dec 2013 Malte Persson said:
During her life, Regina Derieva had to cross several well-guarded borders. Her poetry, truly international, crossed many more. It will continue to do so.
It is a privilege to have had the chance to meet her.
On 23 Dec 2013 Valentina Polukhina said:
Regina Derieva’s relationship with the world was severe and tender, truthful and tragic; it reflects her own tragic life as well as the tragedies of the country she was born in. Her poetry has a wide range of topics: from religious believes to everyday life. It can help to find a difficult answer to a difficult question; it can also comfort the reader or even cure.
Valentina Polukhina
On 22 Dec 2013 Håkan Sandell said:
I efterföljd till Seamus Heaney´s och Elena Schwartz´ gör Regina Derieva´s frånfälle samtidspoesins atmosfär tunnare och gråare.
On 22 Dec 2013 Tomas Venclova said:
Regina Derieva was, first and foremost, a Christian poet, a worthy heir of a long line of metaphysical poets, be they English, French or Russian. Far from any inflated rhetoric or didactics, her poems reached the very core of the Christian experience, which meant serious and fearless attitude to life, suffering and death. The imagery and syntax of the Gospels and the Books of Prophets was, for her, a natural element just as apocalyptic presentiments and mystical hope formed the axis of her world-outlook.
On 20 Dec 2013 Donald Rayfield said:
I discovered Regina Derieva when a year ago I was asked to review two books of her verse in English translation (in Translation and Literature (Edinburgh), vol. 22 (2013), pp 133-7). Of what I wrote, the following might be worth repeating:
Regina Derieva, though as productive a poet as Lipkin, is very different. She has in common with Lipkin a firm religious faith, and the scars of someone who has witnessed the GULAG. Unlike Lipkin, however, she is an inveterate exile, achieving the remarkable status for a Russian citizen of being deported from Israel to find sanctuary in Sweden. Her poetics, too, are very different: she has the ironic and curt observations of Anna Akhmatova, only ten times more acerbic, and she has the flow of similes and metaphors, inspired by extraordinary breadth of reading and of travels, of Josif Brodsky. Like Brodsky, she knows the poetry and prose of John Donne and the topography of London; unlike Brodsky, however, Derieva is impervious to alien influences. Her values remain rigidly Russian and Catholic (like the philosopher Piotr Chaadaev, whom she evidently reveres); she travels England as did Dostoevsky, Herzen or Goncharov, from one Russian-inhabited or Russia-saturated house and street to another, with the natives as mere exotic extras in her film-like sequence.
On 20 Dec 2013 Jim Kates said:
"God stirs together
Regina Derieva (tr. J. Kates in "Corinthian Copper," Marick Press)
On 19 Dec 2013 Annie Finch said:
With wit and courage, her poetry lives on.
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