[RUSSIAN LITERATURE] Vvedensky, Alexander

An Invitation for Me to Think

NYRB Poets, 2013.

Binding: Paperback

A Vvedensky poem doesn’t make a statement. It is an event. Vvedensky’s poetry was unpublishable during his lifetime—he made a living as a writer for children before dying under arrest in 1942—and he remains the least known of the great twentieth-century Russian poets. This is his first book to appear in English. The translations by Eugene Ostashevsky and Matvei Yankelevich, outstanding poets in their own right, are as astonishingly alert and alive as the originals.

Item #2081
ISBN: 9781590176306

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