Selected Poems

By Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Introduction by Robin Milner-Gulland
Translated by Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi

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This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and ‘Birthday’, on a mother’s concern for her son, while ‘Encounter’ depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. ‘The Companion’ and ‘Party Card’ show war from a child’s eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenko’s famous poem, ‘Babiy Yar’, is an angry exposé of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.

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About Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is one of Russia’s most famous modern poets; his works have been translated into 72 languages. Born in Siberia in 1933, he published his first book of poetry at the age of 19. From the 1950s to the… More about Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Aug 26, 2008 | 96 Pages | ISBN 9780140424775

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