Contemporary Russian Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology

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.

Author: Gerald Stanton Smith
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 05/22/1993
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.13w x 1.04d
ISBN: 9780253207692

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/1993
Publishers Weekly 04/19/1993

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.