TWENTIETH CENTURY RUSSIAN POETRY SILVER A N D STEEL ANĪn imprint of Doubleday a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. T O D D AND MAX HAYWARD (WITH DANIEL WEISSBORT)
W I T H A N I N T R O D U C T I O N, BY Y E V G E N YĪLBERT C. R a n g e d in chronological order by birth date of p o d, the selections take on a cumulative nar rative potter, starting with stirrings of unrest at the beginning of this century and encompassing the excitem en t o f the 1917 “ Silver Age” of Russian p( the Stalinist years and World riftcr Stalin ’s death when you :c\ted the limits of official ccn of repressive measures during PaM crnak, T^vctaveva, \o /n e scn sk y, Yesenin, and Yevtushenko will be found in these pages, as * e l) as m arv w onderful w orks by poets who d ew n e to be better known in the west.
Rk y, M andelstam, M aya ko vsky, N abokov, \k h n id u lin a, \k h m ato va, B lo k, Brodsky, I lie great names arc here: quintessential poems In N n rie s, v is io n a rie s, “ g o vern m en t. Ihlection: emigres, dissidents, and \ ictims of repressive SoMct regimes nre side by side with \ iVF Id \Mtt\ o bservations to m oving lyrics and With a poet’s sensiti\e ear, ^cvgcn\ Y evtushen ko has chosen some 8^0 pocrm that reflect the mam modes of Russian I *ctu d course- from powerful declamations j H a t are gathered 253 remarkable poets, selected b> Th - v rtwT\ on a scale never before attempted. , w> *eh presents the poetry of Russia in I h i* iee-»rd is on glorious display in this coi M»e:a' censorship, suppression, and harassment, pacts still dared to sing their songs, Wav mg behind an extraordinary record of their achievement- a secret history of the Russian soul.A repository of a p eep k’s spirit than in K iss a dt.rir.g this c cn tu n.
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