Russian translation of The Basketball Diaries
By Jim Carroll
Translated by Ekaterina Matveeva
Alex Kervey, Editor-in-Chief
Moscow: Adaptec, T-ough Press / AST, 2005
Excerpt:
From The Basketball Diaries, Penguin Edition (1987), pages 140-41.
Fall 1965
A note found on one of those little homework pads you cop for ten cents at Gussie’s . . .
I wrote on an experience with L.S. D. a while ago:
“Little kids shoot
marbles
where the branches break the sun
into graceful shafts of
light . . .
I just want to be pure.”
I found it all crumbled up
in these old pants in history class this morning.
Thanks to the translator for sharing this!