ISBN: 9781737162575 - ochre & rust: selected poems of sergey gandlvesky (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. 130 pages. Winner of the Stephen Mitchell Prize for Excellence in Translation. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize. Translated by Philip Metres. Sergey Gandlevsky was born in 1952, one year before Stalin's death. From early on, he opted out of the Soviet system, working odd jobs and sharing poetry only with a small coterie of friends. His work did not appear in Russian literary journals until the late '80s, during glasnost. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, his poetry and prose have received nearly every major Russian literary prize, and a Russian critics' poll named him the country's most important living poet. Brilliantly rendered into English by poet and translator Philip Metres, Ochre & Rust presents five decades of the best work from a major voice in Russian letters.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Crisp, bright, clean; no owners' marks; as new. [xxiv] 114pp. Winner of the Stephen Mitchell Prize.