Contemporary Russian Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology

by Gerald Stanton Smith

Overview

"The book is a credit to the press, a boon to everyone interested in Russian culture, and an important resource for teachers and students of Russian literature." —Library Journal

" . . . a solid and conscientious piece of work, informed by discerning taste and learning." —Times Literary Supplement

"Smith's collection of contemporary Russian poetry should be useful to anyone with a serious interest in work produced during recent years both by poets living in the U.S.S.R. and by prominent Third Wave emigrés. . . . The introductory and biographical materials are excellent." —Publishers Weekly

The work of twenty-three poets, living in Russia and abroad and writing during the period since 1975, is highlighted in this dual-language anthology. The book features an extraordinary cohort of talented poets, including Joseph Brodsky, Evgenii Rein, and Bella Akhmadulina. Notes, biographical sketches, a detailed bibliography, and an informative introduction make this an indispensable resource for teachers, students, and readers of modern Russian literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253207692
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	05/22/1993
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gerald S. Smith is Professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and Fellow of New College, Oxford. He is author of Songs to Seven Strings: Russian Guitar Poetry and Soviet "Mass Song," co-editor (with A. G. Cross) of Russian Literature in the Eighteenth Century, and translator of Alexander Galich, Songs and Poems.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Recent Russian Poetry
Note on the Texts, Translations, and Annotations

Boris Slutsky
Boris Chichibabin
Bulat Okudzhava
Vladimir Kornilov
German Plisetsky
Evgenii Rein
Dmitrii Bobyshev
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Aleksandr Kushner
Bella Akhmadulina
Yunna Morits
Lev Loseff
Oleg Chukhontsev
Joseph Brodsky
Dmitrii Prigov
Aleksei Tsvetkov
Elena Shvarts
Ivan Zhdanov
Olga Sedakova
Bakhyt Kenzheev
Aleksandr Eremenko
Aleksei Parshchikov

Notes on the Poets and the Poems
Sources of the Texts
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index of Russian Titles and First Lines
Index of English Titles and First Lines