Selected Poems

Evgeny Rein is one of Russia's major living poets. Born in 1935, he belongs to that tragic generation of Russian poets who for decades went unpublished in the Soviet Union. One of Akhmatova's 'magic choir' of young Leningrad poets, he was Joseph Brodsky's mentor and lifetime friend. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

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Born in 1935, Evgeny Rein belongs to that tragic generation of Russian poets who for decades went unpublished in the Soviet Union, and didn't publish his first book of poems until he was 49. One of Akhmatova's 'magic choir' of young Leningrad poets, he was Joseph Brodsky's mentor and lifetime friend. Brodsky figures in many of his poems, and Brodsky's essay on Rein introduces his Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2001), a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

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Evgeny Rein is one of Russia's major living poets. Born in 1935, he belongs to that tragic generation of Russian poets who for decades went unpublished in the Soviet Union. One of Akhmatova's 'magic choir' of young Leningrad poets, he was Joseph Brodsky's mentor and lifetime friend. Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

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• Autori: Evgeny Rein
• Con la collaborazione di: Valentina Polukhina (Editore), Yuri Drobyshev (Traduzione), Robert Reid (Traduzione), Carol Rumens (Traduzione), Daniel Weissbort (Traduzione)
• Editore: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9781852245238
• ISBN: 978-1-85224-523-8
• Pagine: 176
• Dimensioni: 139 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Peso: 278 g
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata