| Details | | Publication Date: | 1994-05-01 | | Editor: | Max Hayward |
| Size | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 48.8 oz |
Publisher's Note A massive, comprehensive anthology of poetry from the politically turbulent Russia of this century. This collection introduces Americans to a number of astonishing poets virtually unknown outside of Russia, as well as presenting the work of some of the most prominent Russian poets of the past 90 years.
Industry Reviews "The idea for this anthology arose [from] a plan to gather into a whole all the pieces of the Russian national spirit, whose finest embodiment is our poetry. To collect all the fragments, the grains, the crumbs hurled by the winds of history into Siberian camps, into homes for old people in France, into yellowed slender little books published in Kharbin or Rio de Janeiro, into family archives, into KGB interrogation files,. In the United States the Statue of Liberty was erected by putting together pieces that had been brought from France. In our country the only material for a statue of Liberty is Russian poetry." Introduction - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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